Destroy The Guilty

 LeoI'd instantly fallen in love with Gideon Grey the first time I saw him. Granted, I was seven at the time and had no idea what falling in love was. However, there was something about the scrawny boy that fascinated me. I stole bread from the church charity bake sale to erase the hunger in his eyes, and he stole my heart.Years later, we reconnected in a bar, and I learned what falling in love meant. I thought we would spend the rest of our lives together, and we'd tell our children about growing up in the same small town, and how my parents had forbade us from being together. They took me away from him at fourteen, and fate brought us together again at twenty. We had the perfect forbidden love story, and then, like so many other great love stories, ours ended in tragedy.We didn't die like Romeo and Juliet, but four other people did, because of Gideon's terrible mistake, for which he went to jail, and I ended up in a wheelchair. Six years after he destroyed my life, Gideon returned home, and I quickly learned that hating him would be a lot harder than I'd anticipated.GideonThe night of the car accident began in Heaven, and ended in the depths of Hell. The choices I'd made came with irreparable consequences, and I'd accepted them all. I have to live with my choices and carry my demons on my back. My guilt will always be my cross, and I would gladly endure the burden with Leo by my side. From the moment I first saw her, she was the only woman for me. I came home to the hate-to-love chapter of our story, and I'm willing to wait until she has a change of heart. We will have our happily-ever-after, because a love like ours is too powerful to die from one mistake.