Day 9: Ashton's Love Triangle

Damn.

He'd fucked up again, but he couldn't bring himself to turn around and ditch his mission: Operation Get Cassie Back.

But he didn't have time to mess around either, not as night fell around him in a blanket of blue velvet, a sign the neighborhood cop would begin his rounds.

Ashton licked his lips, closed his eyes, and inhaled for courage. If he didn't have anything else, he had the audacity, because he knew he'd ruin this again.

Swatting the truth like an annoying fly, Ashton lifted his fist, thumping it several times against the royal blue door. If it kept his world from tumbling, he'd wait all night.

Cassie didn't have his heart, but her soul emanated a light he hadn't found in anyone else-- not even Sadie, his children's mother. While Sadie held his heart like a museum piece, it was Cassie's light that kept his childish love for Sadie alive.

He couldn't have one without the other. Without Cassie, he couldn't love Sadie...and he needed to love Sadie for their children.