Abby's P.O.V.

By the time Leo pulled into the driveway of Lana's home, my wrists were raw and I had to pee so badly my stomach was cramping up.

“This is it,” I said through my teeth as I clenched them tightly against the pain.

He opened the door and got out then he opened my door and I didn’t wait for someone else to grab me and jerk me around. I was hurting too bad for that. He didn’t say anything as he unlocked the cuffs behind my back.
I felt like weeping from relief when my hands fell limply at my sides. He moved to open the trunk and set both my suitcases on the driveway.
With one small nod he got in the car and drove away. I went to pick up my bags and stinging pain shot up both my arms. I decided my suitcases could stay out here for now.

I walked to the door and looked up at the house I had helped Lana decorate before she was married. Her husband had bought it for them four months before their wedding so that Lana could get it fixed for them to move into once they were married.

It had been romantic. I had stood in her house and wished that some man would love me that much one day. I wasn’t meant to be loved like that. I couldn’t be. My desire to want that had been selfish.

Reaching up, I pressed the doorbell and waited. When the door opened it wasn’t Lana who I had hoped would be here so I could throw myself into her arms and cry. Instead, it was Brian, her husband.

"Abby?” he asked his eyes going wide in surprise.

"Hello, brian” I said in a strained voice. My bladder was begging to be set free.

“Can I use your restroom?” He stepped back and let me inside.

"Uh, of course, you know where it is.” I walked past him and decided I’d take a minute to gather myself after I relieved myself.

Once I was finished I stood at the mirror and stared at my swollen red-rimmed eyes. I looked as pathetic as I felt. I washed my wrists with soap and water then dried them. The tender skin stung but at least they were clean now. I walked back to the entryway to see Brian walking in with both of my suitcases. His eyes found mine and the sympathy and concern in them only made me feel even more pathetic.

“Thank you. I’m afraid I don’t have the car. I didn’t get to bring it back with me. I’ll find a way to get it though.”
Brian put my suitcases down and nodded his head toward the kitchen.

“Come on. Let’s get you something to drink and eat if you’re hungry. I called Lana. She’s on her way home from work.” I glanced at the clock. It wasn’t yet three o’clock. Lana would still be at school. She was a third grade teacher.

I sat down on one of the tall bar stools that Lana and I had found at a boutique for a ridiculous amount of money. But she’d loved them and Brian never told her no.

“I know I’m not Lana. But you can talk to me if you need to,” Brian said while he went about fixing me some sweet iced tea.

He hadn’t even asked me what I wanted. He already knew. I’d been a package deal with Lana. Brian had loved her and overlooked the fact she was so dedicated to me. He had once said it was one of the reasons he loved her.

“I’d rather just say it once. I’m not sure I can tell it twice,” I said as he set the glass down in front of me. I knew he understood. He’d seen me have more than one of my spells. I wasn’t sure if Lana had ever given him the details. I had once thought that she wouldn’t share that with anyone but now that I knew what it felt like to love someone and want to share everything with them… I believed differently. I was okay with it. If she told him it was her story too. She had every right.

“If there is someone I need to go beat the hell out of you just say the word.” The fact Brian was so worried about me relieved my mind. I wasn’t sure where I was going to go next but I needed a week or so before I made a life for myself again. I wasn’t ready to be alone. Not yet.

The front door swung open and Lana's heels clicked down the hallway as she ran toward us.

“Abby!” she called out and I stood up. Tears filled my eyes. I needed to see her.

“The kitchen, Lana,” Brian replied.

Lana came barreling into the kitchen and a sob escaped me as I saw her run straight to me. Her arms wrapped around me and I clung to her. She’d sent me on this trip to find myself and yet I’d found so much more. I wanted to be able to express to her that this wasn’t just heartbreak. I’d made memories of a lifetime that I wouldn’t trade for the world. But right now I just needed her to hold me while we both cried.

She didn’t even know why she was crying she just held me and cried. I had missed her so much. I’d come to the right place. This was home. Even with the memories that haunted me here this was where I belonged.
Lana was my home. She was all I had.

“Why don’t we get her into the living room and you two can sit on the couch and cry all you want?” Brian said in a gentle voice. Lana nodded but she didn’t let go of me. We managed a few more sniffles and sobs before easing back enough to look at each other.

"Are you okay?” she asked. I nodded then I shook my head.

“I don’t know. I’m lost and confused.” Lana reached down and grasped my hand.

"Let’s go to the living room and get comfortable” I wasn’t ready to talk right now but they both deserved an explanation. I needed to tell them exactly what had happened in London. And maybe they could help me figure out what I was going to do with my life now.
My travels were over. I needed to live my life here. Where I was sure of my surroundings and I couldn’t hurt anyone else.

I began explaining how everything happened at the gas station and then how I ended up there once again because of Aiden. Then I told them about how I lost my heart to Harry and how I would do it all over again.
When I was finished Lana was wiping at her eyes again.

“I hate that man. I want to strangle him. How could he do that to you? And does Harty know?” I shook my head then paused. I wasn’t sure if Harry knew now or not. Did he think I’d just left him? Did that matter?

“It doesn’t matter. I can’t stay with him. You know that more than anyone. What happens when I snap and I lose my sanity? I don’t want Harry to love me and be left with a shell of a woman the way I was left with my mother. He has this life in front of him with so much he’s worked for. I can’t be who he needs. I’m trying to be who I need. I’m not what any man needs, Lana. You know that.”


Harry's P.O.V.

The lunch shift had ended ten minutes ago. I wasn’t late yet. I
I parked the truck and headed inside. I hadn’t seen Abby in six hours and that was just too damn long. I wasn’t scheduling her for two shifts again. No matter how hard she begged.

I shoved open the kitchen doors and everyone froze. Normally my entrance didn’t get much notice. They were used to me walking in and out. Danny was clocking out. He glared at me and cocked his hip to the side.

“You're just now showing up to worry about the lack of help we had around here? You go and arrest the best damn help I’ve had since Danielle worked here. Then no explanation or peep out of you.”

Arrest his help? What help?

“What are you talking about?” I asked looking around for Abby. Maybe she could explain the drama queen’s outburst.

“Oh, I don’t know Harry. Maybe the fact the po-po shows up and arrests sweet little Abby and scares the shit outta her then you do nothing. You let them take her and you don’t worry about the fact she’s scheduled to work two shifts today.”

My head snapped towards his direction and I grabbed the first thing I could reach which was the front of Jimmy’s shirt.

"What did you say about Abby and the police? Stop blabbering and fucking explain yourself,” I roared.

The blood was rushing to my head and pounding in my temples. I had known something was wrong but nothing Danny had said made sense.

"The police came and took Abby right after she got here this morning. You didn’t know? They said Mr. Styles wanted her escorted out of the building before they cuffed her. She was scared man. Really scared.” I let go of Danny’s shirt and he stumbled backwards.
The selfish controlling fucker had my Abby arrested. She was scared. She was gonna need me and I wasn’t there.

“FUCK,” I roared and stormed out of the kitchen and started running.

I had to find her.

Notes

So heere is the first update!

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and will abby be able to go back to london with him?

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