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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 me here. So,

sooner we work out life is not about us, we're

smiles and then his face is serious again. "Apart from Ashlyn, is there anything else on

to talk about my mom and Cass, my little sister, being here with me. It's been.... confronting, to say the least. But also, cathartic in many ways. Barnaby leans

"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

time. Try to focus on building a close relationship

Much worse than me. She protected me in the only way she could at time. She's been clean for

guilt?" Barnaby

Tnod.

t the

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

protect Winona, I get it, Jayden. But we need to let her work through

just, a lot, being there, seeing the way other people have

it's all you know, there is no choice. People don't see what's hard for

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it. We live the hand we're dealt." I say and I do feel that's

about your mother and sister. You didn't even know you had a sibling or that

Even now I have

healthy, but be careful you don't

it's hard to shake the awfulness of Mom struggling like

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

want me

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