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.

I proceed to tell her everything from how it

got here.

I am done, I’m crying once again. I didn’t want to project my pain,

hard.

I was going until I was at Kate’s house”

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

me when I was little and they treated me

him and call Emma

for when I was

yet they said nothing. Hell,

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

child should suffer through how your Kate and James

right for exposing what

There was this part of me that felt

could have handled it

so angry that I couldn’t even

  1. about as I drove is; Like mother, like daughter

was about to say something when my doll bell

my door, Letty. I have

drained.

it has been a tiring

up. I consider ignoring

didn’t want

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and

you doing here?”

being honest, I was

shocked that he

come in?” he asks

must be wrong with me because I step aside and let him in. He gives me a small

enters my

he asks

Today he’ll be sleeping

his eyes at his name. For a

forces himself to calm down. I almost clap for him

It’s crazy how today turned out.” He pauses. “How are you

seen some massive changes in him recently, but today it’s

he would have lashed out at me for hurting

possible that he

shake my head to push away those thoughts. I’m being absurd. He

It’s not possible for him to have a change of

a while to consider what I just said. “Scratch that. I’m definitely

feel like

walks closer to

I feel his body heat. I feel

where

reason I am not. My mind was

had been thinking clearly, I would have told

I know this must be hard for you and not just because

concerns Gunner”

shocked that he understands that not all of what I am feeling right

of Gunner, but also because of

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at his feet, but he cups

don’t know,

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

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

Like I am his

way to distract you” he starts. “If I bend and take those pretty pink

just stare at

him no‘ I whisper to

Push

can’t think straight and my mouth won’t move to form the

descends as if in slow motion. Finally, his

me because I slowly open my

in. I close my eyes at

feel him in every fiber as our mouths mold and our tongues dance together.

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