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.

and I proceed to tell her everything from how it started to

got here.

I didn’t want to

hard.

was going until I was at Kate’s house” I tell her. I had stopped

“I felt so angry on his behalf and mine. I

Something no one did for me when I was little and they

him and

when I was growing up. Other parents noticed how Kate

me, yet they said nothing. Hell, even Rowan’s parents kept quiet and followed

for me or what was right. So I decided to do it for

through how your Kate and James treated

treated Gunner. You were right for exposing what a bitch she

part of me that felt

could have handled it

I was so angry that I

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about to say something when my doll bell

at my door, Letty. I have

tired and drained. Both emotionally and

We’ll talk tomorrow. I know it has been a tiring

ignoring the person

tired. I didn’t want

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up and ge open

are you doing here?” I ask in

am being honest, I was expecting him to

I’m shocked that he in here

come in?” he

wrong with me because I step aside

he enters my

Noah asleep?” he asks while taking off

not here. Today he’ll be sleeping

a moment I think he’s going to start a

he literally forces himself to calm down. I almost

turned out.” He pauses. “How

changes in him recently, but today it’s just

Before he wouldn’t have cared. In fact he would have lashed out at me

it honestly be possible that he

I’m being absurd.

possible for him to have

say, then take a while to consider what I just said. “Scratch that. I’m

feel like I’ve

walks closer to

his body heat. I

every place where I

reason I am not. My mind

I had been thinking clearly, I

can I do to ease your pain? I know this must be hard for you and not just because

concerns Gunner”

understands that not

Gunner, but also because of my

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but he cups my

don’t know, Rowan” I

cheek softly. His fingers skimming over my cheek and neck. He then pushes a lock of my hair behind

in a way that I used to dream about.

Like I am his world, which

you” he starts. “If I bend and take those pretty pink lips, will you let me?”

just stare at

no‘ I whisper to

Push him

straight and my mouth won’t move to form

if in slow motion. Finally, his

because I slowly

my eyes at the

every fiber as our mouths mold and our tongues dance together.

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