1. Baby Ava

“What the fuck is he doing here?” Rowan booms, his cold grey eyes shooting daggers at Ethan.

I was really not in the mood deal with his tantrums. Yes he was there for me yesterday, but that doesn’t mean he has a say on who is in my home.

Theo or should I say my dad clears his throat. It was going to take some time to get used to the idea of calling him dad.

The sound of his voice pulls everyone’s eyes to him.

Theo Howell?” Rowan says in surprise but he quickly hides it. “What are you doing here?”

Rowan looks between all of us. His eyes moving from Theo and Nora then back at me. Slowly connecting the dots.

“It’s been a while Rowan, though I can’t say that I am pleased with how you’ve treated my daughter Theo says with a dangerous smile on his lips.

“What he means to say is, we’re downright pissed off with the way you and your family has treated our daughter and we can’t see ourselves having such business partners” Nora adds. She doesn’t smile and for the first time since she came to my house, I feel hostility and hatred radiating off her.

“How’s this possible? Travis has shock written all over his face

Like I said, everyone in the country knows who the Howell’s are. They may like to keep their life private, but they’re still known.

“Oh, trust me darling anything in this world is possible” Nora says glaring at him. Fire burning behind her eyes.

I look at Emma and she too had a shocked expression. Her mouth hang open in disbelief. If she

wasn’t careful she would catch a fly

“Can we just get this over with so that you may all leave?” I ask looking directly at him.

He nods his head and pulls out his laptop. He sets it down and we gather around it. He doesn’t

waste any time skyping mother. Soon her face fills the screen.

“We’re all here mom” Emma tells her and she nods her head.

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“How are you, Ava?” she asks slowly.

I don’t know why she all over sudden cared about me when she hasn’t for more than twenty years

of my life.

“Just say what you want to say, no need for the fake pleasantries”

She looks hurt, but at this point I just don’t care. I wasn’t going to play along to whatever it is she

was trying to do. She was too late to fix was what was broken.

She takes a calming breath before beginning. “You came to us when you were weeks old, but we

didn’t adapt you until you were about fifteen months old”

“What do you mean?”

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had worked for us for years. She wanted a family but

herself bearing another man’s child. You see,

marriage and she never recovered. They were planning to start a family the

financially stable. All that was taken

husband over” she explains.

want to ever get married again

About a month after she made that decision, she was

their church found a baby outside the church and

wanted to adopt her”

it a coincidence? Was the

was too

one week break and went back to her home

back a week after, but she ended up taking two weeks, but finally she got

the

was probably a scared teen that gave birth and

social worker allowed Winnie to come back with the child

paper works for adoption. The baby was a blessing to

mother says looking

It’s like Ava

she

what she just told us. Winnie

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she loved me like you say, why didn’t she raise me? How did

family?”

got you, she was diagnosed with stage four

for her and that she only had a few months to live. Before

adopt you. We didn’t want to, we already had two children

anymore”

because

did you take me in if you didn’t want to?”

“When Travis was two years he managed to get out

to cross the road. There was

get to him in time, I screamed in fear, My fear must have alerted

or how she

a coma for two months. They amputated her right hand because it was

a limp since then because of the permanent

in a deep breath before letting it out. “We accepted her request because we felt we

As much as we tried to compensate her it would never

what she went through. So when she died,

hadn’t. You

the life I

memory with

misery.

Do you know how many people would

ask,

Emma before I shut it up for you permanently.” I hiss, my

you stupid comments. I slept with your damn

fuck up. It disgusting watching a thirty

old. Noah behaves more mature than

up surprises everyone. Emma looks down, her cheeks a shade

Nora. I

they were sitting right next to

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