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183 Making Strides

(Winona)

Jayden shifts in his chair. "It hurts hearing you say that. But I accept your feelings. Thank you for being

honest."

I smile. Wow. He is really real about all of this. About us. A surge of love and respect for Jayden engulfs me. He's been to hell and back too.

Just because he's done it with billions of dollars doesn't make it hurt any less for him.

Barnaby leans back in his seat and grins. "You two are really making strides. I'll be eating at the soup kitchen soon because I'm out of a job."

I laugh. "Don't think you'll be lining up anytime soon, doc. But I do feel that was a major shift for us. To be honest like that and not have Jayden get angry is amazing.

"I can tell you're both serious and you are putting each other first. Well done."

"I did feel angry, and I felt hurt because it wasn't what I wanted you to say. But being told what I want to

pandered to all my life is what got

yourself. Brilliant. The sooner we work out life is not about us,

is serious again. "Apart

little sister, being here with me. It's been.... confronting, to say the least. But also, cathartic in many ways. Barnaby leans forward, his eyes focused on mine. "Tell me more about that, Winona.

breath, trying to organize my thoughts. "It's hard seeing Mom like she is now. I like that I've had the chance to be with her and understand the truth about the past, but I sometimes get envious of everything I missed out on and I see her

and that will take time. Try to focus on building a close

in the only way she could at time. She's been clean for years, but she's still so

guilt?" Barnaby

Tnod.

t the

did nothing wrong. You survived what they both put you through." Jayden's anger

But we need to let her

being there, seeing the way other people have to live, chose

don't see what's hard for them to see. And that's

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in it then your worlds apart from it. We live the hand we're dealt." I

guilty about your mother and sister. You didn't even know you had a sibling or that your Mom was still alive." Jayden says

Even now I have more

Taking responsibility is healthy, but be careful you don't deal yourself an unfair hand. Be logical. Going back would have

to shake the awfulness of Mom struggling like

not exactly a low-profile person lately, Winona. Don't you think if she'd wanted contact with you, she could have

But maybe she didn't want me back in

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