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I took the letter from my father and started to read over it. It started very simr to the one that I had seen already. In fact, it started exactly like the message my mother had exchanged, but after a certain point, it started to deviate.
My Dearest Aaron,
I miss you more than you
could ever know. I need to
see you. I need to be with
you. There is something I
need to tell you. It''s very
important.
With Love Vivian
Vivian My Darling,
I am not able to get away.
Things are hectic and crazy
right now. I do not believe
that the queen would let me
leave right now. I miss you.
With all my love,
Aaron
My Dearest Aaron,
I do not like how you are
ignoring me. I do not like
that you have taken your
love and attention away
from me. I do not want to
be away from you. I want
you toe back right now.
I want to have you shower
me with love and attention.
I await your reply,
Vivian
Vivian My Darling,
That is simply not possible
at the moment. The queen is
not permitting us to leave at
all until the yule celebration has
my love. I will return to you as
soon as I am able to. I also
wish to be with you as much
as I possibly can. I love you
Vivian, please, just wait for me.
With Love, Aaron
Aaron,
This is not going to work.
I need to see the way that
you love me. I haven''t seen
any proof of this so called
love that you have for me.
What am I to do while I wait
for you to return to me? How
am I to know how long it will
be before youe back to
me? For all I know, it could be
months or even years before
youe back to me. How
can you possibly expect me
to wait that long for you? I
need to see you, Aaron, I
need you to prove your love
for me. This is not something
I am willing to negotiate on.
If you cannot prove your love
for me then we are done.
I am sorry,
Vivian
Vivian,
Please, my dearest Vivian, do
not do this. I love you. I thought
that you loved me as well. Please,
Vivian, we can make this work.
It will only take some time for me
toe back after this time
home. I wille back home
soon sweetheart. Please, I love
you. Don''t you love me? I
thought you loved me, you told
me that you loved me. Was that
not the truth? Vivian? Please do
not do this.
Let''s work on this,
Aaron
Aaron,
I was mistaken. I was caught up in
the moment. I did not love you. I
never loved you. I am sorry that I
led you on. We need to end this now.
It will be for the best to stop it before
it gets any further along. I don''t want
to hurt you anymore than I already
have Aaron. I am sorry. Have a good
life, I wish you the best.
Goodbye,
Vivian
Vivian, My Love
Please,e back to me. Do not
do this. Please, Vivian, I love you
too much. I want you in my life. I
have never in my life felt like this
for anyone. I need you. Please,
Vivian, answer me.
Love Aaron
Vivian,
Please, my love, send me a
letter in response. I miss you. I
need to see you. I want to talk to
you.
Love Aaron.
Vivian,
I haven''t sent you a message in
a very long time. I also haven''t
left home since you told me that
you don''t love me. I haven''t been
able to bring myself to look at the
world. It has lost its color and
beauty without you in it. But I am
still in love with you, even now
two and a half yearster. I
miss you now just as much as I
did the day you ended it with me.
I fear I will always miss you.
Love you always,
Aaron
Vivian
I know these messages aren''t
going to you anymore; they haven''t
for a long time. But I left home for
the first time today. It''s been four
years since I have seen you, and this
is the first time since I have seen the
city since then. You''re not here. I
looked for you immediately. Any
trace of you was long gone. I used my
magic to search for you, and the trail
had gone so cold that I couldn''t even
follow after you if I wanted to. I just
needed to write thisst message, I
just needed to say this onest time,
I still love you Vivian, and I know that
I always will because I know that you
were my one true mate.
Heartbrokenly yours,
Aaron
I felt the tears streaming down my face as I finished reading the letters that my father had sent. They were just the opposite of the ones I had. They showed a man so devoted to a woman that couldn''t have cared less about him. What had happened? How had they ended up with twopletely different sets of responses?
When I looked up and saw that my father was done reading, with his red eyes and tears streaming down his face, I knew that he was just as confused as I was.
"H..how? H..how is this p..p..possible?" He was sobbing as he held the letters close to his heart.
"Th...th..this is Vivian''s handwriting, b..b..but so is that." He was pointing a shaking finger at the letter he had handed me to read. The letters he had thought that my mother had sent to him. "I..I..I swear, I swear that I..I..I didn''t s..s..send these to her. I d..d..didn''t." He began to sob uncontrobly at that moment. "I loved her, with all m..m..my heart. I never sent her these."
I watched as he crumpled the letters in his hands, the letters that had caused my mother so much pain. I could see that the letters he had held onto had caused him so much pain as well.
"Aunt Gloriana, how did this happen? How did the letters split? How did ite to be two letters that took two drastically different paths?"
"That is something that we must work to discover, now isn''t it? If I were to fathom a guess here, I would say that there was someone else involved here. Someone or something else that caused this strife between them. I think someone wanted to drive a wedge between the two of you, Aaron. Can you think of anyone who might have been jealous, or who might have wanted to break you apart?"
"No!" He answered immediately. "There was no one that even acted like they didn''t approve of our rtionship. Everyone loved Vivian; she had the best of friends and everyone loved to be around her. They epted her and approved of us."
"There had to have been someone." Aunt Gloriana looked confused.
I watched as the two of them racked their brains to try and figure it all out. Neither of them seemed to have a clue of what was really going on. I guess it was because neither of them had ess to my mother''s diaries at the time.
"I think I might know."
The two of them turned to look at me like they thought that I was crazy. They didn''t see how someone who wasn''t even alive at the time could possibly know what had been going on. They just didn''t know what it was that I knew.
"No offense, Astraia, but how could you possibly know?" My father asked me with a confused look.
"Yes, Star, I hate to doubt you and all, but I do not see how you would know anything about this situation since you were the only one not around at the time."
"To be fair, I may not have been alive at the time, but I have been privy to information that neither of you have been. I have my mother''s journals. I have read them and know what had happened to her at the time that you knew her. Plus, I have spoken to my great great grandfather. I can put it all together and figure out who the culprit was for all of this. And I just wish he was still alive so that I could kill him myself."
I had never felt an anger boil in me like this before. Not even when the man in question was tormenting me. I felt it now though, as I saw just how much he had meddled in the lives of my family, just how many people he had affected. He was a sick, twisted monster, and I was d that he was dead. Even if I wanted to kill him myself, I was d he was dead.