It's been ten years now and I've programmed my brain to forget her little did I know that I was deceiving myself.

Things changed when I saw her.
She looked different. She wasn't the same little girl I had fallen in love with. She was now a grown woman.

She was gorgeous.
I needed her beneath me just for one night. I'd get her out of my system and move on.

That was probably a lie.

Months later.

Here I am drowning my sorrow in alcohol on my last night as a single man.
I was getting married to a woman I never truly loved.

Tara gave me a shy smile as she approached the aisle with her father.

Kelsey looked away and ignored me.

I was about to slide the ring on Tara's finger and her father's voice stopped me.

"Stop."

I turned around and faced him.

Tara grabbed his hand angrily.

"Dad what are you doing?!"

IN MY DARKEST HOUR YOU ARE MY LIGHT

"Did you say Marcus Devon?" I asked curiously.


I ignored her question and took the phone from her. And when I saw his pictures my eyes instantly watered.


All the memories and pain were going to haunt me all over again because I was the one who hurt him.


But yet I didn't have a choice, did that still make me the villain?


I only did what I did because I didn't want to hurt him and I was protecting him from my crazy absurd father.


I was filled with regret,anger and resentment. I wish he had refused to believe my words but I know that deep down I broke him.


He trusted me and broke his trust and stabbed him in the back and used his weakness against him.


That explains why he looked so familiar because he was my Marcus.


The boy that used to drive me crazy and yet be the centre of my world.


CHAPTER THIRTY THREE