A Dead Flower Needs No Water

The day Rowena signs her divorce papers, her best friend is already standing at the front door with a bag of groceries, ready to cook dinner for the little boy Rowena carried for ten months. For weeks the two people she trusted most used her own four-year-old son as their lookout. Damon had everything, wealth, a name, a company that never stopped growing, and he threw it away one careless night with the woman Rowena called her closest friend. So Rowena walks. She leaves the city, goes back to the small town where the only family she has left runs an orphanage, and there she meets a silent girl who waits at the gate every day for parents who never come. Rowena takes her home, names her, feeds her, and for the first time in years the house feels like hers. But Damon will not let go. He follows her. He sends the boy. He swears it only happened once, that he made the other woman get rid of the baby, that no one can replace her. Each visit chips at the peace Rowena fought for. And when he finally tells her the real reason he never wanted their son, she learns exactly how far back the rot in him goes, and what a tall building has to do with all of it. Some love, once broken, is a dead flower. It does not need water. It will not bloom again.

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  • Author: redemption_arc_stan
  • Chapters: 9
  • Status: Completed

The day Rowena signs her divorce papers, her best friend is already standing at the front door with a bag of groceries, ready to cook dinner for the little boy Rowena carried for ten months. For weeks the two people she trusted most used her own four-year-old son as their lookout. Damon had everything, wealth, a name, a company that never stopped growing, and he threw it away one careless night with the woman Rowena called her closest friend. So Rowena walks. She leaves the city, goes back to the small town where the only family she has left runs an orphanage, and there she meets a silent girl who waits at the gate every day for parents who never come. Rowena takes her home, names her, feeds her, and for the first time in years the house feels like hers. But Damon will not let go. He follows her. He sends the boy. He swears it only happened once, that he made the other woman get rid of the baby, that no one can replace her. Each visit chips at the peace Rowena fought for. And when he finally tells her the real reason he never wanted their son, she learns exactly how far back the rot in him goes, and what a tall building has to do with all of it. Some love, once broken, is a dead flower. It does not need water. It will not bloom again.