I'm Hearing Voices Part 3!

First – THANK YOU to everyone who has stopped by my blog, and THANK YOU to everyone who has posted such wonderful pieces of their stories!! I’ve enjoyed all of them, and I hope you enjoyed mine! :D 

Now, first I thought I was going to do something with Sia and Aran, but I’d be giving too much away, I think, and I had really wanted to do something with my favorite characters, Cove and Sara. 

Here they are: 

 

Okay, here's our last challenge: 

February 10th - Friday - Emotion Flash Fiction: Emotion is the engine of a story. Pick an emotion and in a flash fiction piece of 250 words MAKE us feel it! We want to connect with your character. This will be a challenge in 250 words. 

I guess you could say my emotion was anger...maybe pain? Maybe pain can be a sub-category of anger? Lol.

            “How could you think I would want him?” asked Sara. Her voice startled him—she sounded angry.

            Cove looked at her. “You are going to marry him,” he said. “What else should I think?”

            “He asked my father, Cove,” his heart beat faster when he heard her say his name. “There was nothing I could do to protest. My father said I’d be stupid to resist his advances.”

            “You swore you would never let your father decide your marriage,” said Cove.

            “You weren’t there to care who I married,” said Sara, almost bitterly. “Your father came to dinner—my parents discussed our marriage. Canice said you weren’t the settling-down type. He said you had no desire to marry. I had no reason to wait for a man who did not love me.”

            Cove stood at that moment.

            “And you believed that?” he spat rage.

            “What was I supposed to think? You didn’t come back for a month and never came to see me after.”

            “You were engaged, Sara! It wouldn’t have been appropriate and as far as I knew, you had no desire to see me anymore. If I had married, what would you have thought?” he asked. Sara wanted to respond, but she couldn’t say anything—she knew how she would feel. Hurt. Lost. Angry.

            “I heard of your engagement on the day I returned from sea. It was the worst news I had ever heard. You have no idea how I felt—no idea!”

P.S. After reading others, I realized, I failed at this. LOL.