104 Something wrong with me

Ava

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My brain cells were totally fried.

I’ve been sitting here since Calvin left about an hour ago. I asked him if Noah could stay the night

at his house today and he agreed.

I was still trying to grasp all that I learnt today. It was too much information all at once. I didn’t

know how to handle all of it.

My phone rings. For a second I think of ignoring, but decide against it. It might be an emergency.

I swipe the screen sightlessly. I put the gadget to my ear, but don’t say a thing. My mind was

completely blank so I wait for whoever was on the other side to speak.

“Ava” she breathes. “Thank God. Are you okay? Travis told me what happened today”

Immediately I recognize her voice. Letty.

“I’m not sure, honestly” I reply in a whisper.

I still didn’t understand how Emma could be so cruel to Calvin and Gunner. I know that she always

wanted to carry Rowan’s children, but to reject her own flesh and blood because he doesn’t have

Rowan’s DNA is downright malicious.

“Travis told me you’re the one that discovered the truth and exposed Emma’s lie”

Knowing how a parent’s rejection feels like, I completely understood Gunner’s pain. I took his pain

as my own because he r ded me so much of myself.

He didn’t choose Emma to be his mother, yet she hurt him as if he was nothing. That pissed me of

and broke my heart at the same time.

“Yes. It was just by coincidence I guess”

“How? How were you able to figure it out” she asks, her voice in disbelief.

I don’t know whether it’s from finding out that Emma has a son or it’s from her inability to

understand how I came by the truth.

“His smile” I breathe. “He’s smiled at me many times before, but there was this day it just hit me

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was young snapped in my head His smile was similar to hers

“Cal never said anything before?”

“Never but when I mentioned Emma’s name, he completely froze. That gave everything away.

Also the fact that he didn’t correct me”

It still seems so surreal. I can’t imagine my life without Noah so I don’t understand how Emma

was able to live like her son didn’t exist.

me everything” she insists and I proceed to tell her everything from how it started to

got here.

I’m crying once again. I didn’t want to project my

hard.

at Kate’s house” I tell her.

“I felt so angry on his

for me when I was little and they treated me

and call Emma out on her

I was growing up.

said nothing. Hell,

me or what was right. So I

No child should suffer through how your Kate and James treated you

Emma treated Gunner. You were right for exposing what

felt so relieved. There was this part of me that felt

could have handled it

I couldn’t even think

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something

door, Letty. I have to

and drained. Both emotionally and

talk tomorrow. I know it has been a tiring day for

goodnights and hang up. I consider ignoring the person on the door. Like I said,

didn’t

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up and ge

are you doing here?”

him if I am being honest, I was expecting him to be by Emma’s

that he

I come in?” he asks instead

I step aside and let him in.

enters

Noah asleep?” he asks while taking off

though he’s not here. Today he’ll be sleeping over at

flash in his eyes at his name. For a moment I think he’s going to

himself to calm down. I almost clap

how today turned out.” He

changes in him recently, but today

he wouldn’t have cared. In fact he would have lashed

be possible that he

away those thoughts. I’m being absurd. He had nine years to change

to have a change

to consider what I

I feel like I’ve

closer

body heat. I feel him entirely.

where

but for some reason I am not. My

thinking clearly, I would have told him

I know this must be

concerns Gunner”

he understands that not all

Gunner, but also because of

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feet, but he cups my

don’t know, Rowan”

skimming over my cheek and neck. He

in a way that I used to dream about.

I am his world, which is

one way to distract you” he starts. “If I bend and take those pretty pink lips, will you let

just stare

I whisper

no, Ava. Push

think straight and my mouth won’t move to

head descends as if in slow motion. Finally, his firm and soft lips touch

be wrong with me because I slowly open my mouth and let

my eyes at the fiery

as our mouths mold and our tongues

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