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.

proceed to tell her everything from

got here.

time I am done, I’m crying once again. I didn’t

hard.

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

few months ago. “I felt so angry on his behalf and mine. I wanted to do something

when I was little and they treated me with cruel disdain.

him and call Emma out on her

I was

yet they said nothing. Hell,

for me or what

babe. No child should suffer through how your

right for exposing what a

that felt like maybe I shouldn’t

could have handled it

I couldn’t even think straight. I

  1. I thought about as I drove is; Like mother,

to say something when my doll bell

door, Letty.

felt so tired and drained. Both emotionally

I know it has been a tiring day for

and hang up. I consider ignoring the person

didn’t want to see

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up and ge open

are you doing

am mitpitted to see him if I am being

shocked that he

he asks instead

because I step aside and let him in. He

he enters my

asleep?” he asks while taking off

here. Today he’ll be

For a moment

himself to calm down. I almost

turned out.” He

in him recently, but today

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

be possible

away those thoughts. I’m being absurd.

for him to have

then take a while to consider what I

I feel like I’ve

walks closer

me in his arms. I feel his body heat. I feel him entirely. He

where

some reason I am not.

thinking

I know this must be hard for you and

concerns Gunner”

understands that not all of what

of Gunner, but also because of my own

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but he cups my cheek and makes me

don’t know,

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

grey eyes clash with mine. He stares at me in a way that I used to dream

like he wants. Like I am his world, which is impossible,

and take those pretty pink lips, will you let me?” he ask, as

stare

him no‘ I whisper

no, Ava. Push him

but I can’t think straight and my

head descends as if in slow motion.

me because I

eyes at the fiery

as our mouths mold and our tongues dance together. My legs weaken

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