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.

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

got here.

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

hard.

where I was going until I was at Kate’s

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

did for me when I was little and they

and call Emma

I was growing up. Other

nothing. Hell,

or what was right. So I decided to do

should suffer through how your Kate and James

Gunner. You were right for

felt so relieved. There was this part of me that felt like maybe I shouldn’t have done it. Like

could have handled it

but I was so angry that I couldn’t

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

to say something when my

Letty.

drained. Both

tomorrow. I know it has been

up. I consider ignoring the person on the door. Like

tired. I didn’t

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and ge open the

are you doing here?” I

if I am being honest,

shocked that he in

in?” he

wrong with me because I step aside and let him

enters

Noah asleep?” he asks while

not here. Today he’ll be

his name. For a moment I think he’s

I almost clap for him at

how today turned out.” He

in him recently, but today it’s just sort

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

possible that he has

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

did. It’s not possible for him to have

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

feel like I’ve been scraped

closer to

I feel his body heat. I feel him entirely. He

where I

pushing him away, but for some reason I am not. My mind was

If I had been thinking clearly,

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

concerns Gunner”

he understands that not all

of Gunner, but also because of my

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he cups my cheek and makes me

don’t know, Rowan” I

caresses my cheek softly. His fingers skimming over my cheek and neck. He

stares at me in a way that I used to dream about. He

wants. Like I am his world,

bend and take those pretty pink lips, will you

just stare

no‘ I whisper to

no, Ava. Push him

I should, but I can’t think straight and my

in slow motion. Finally, his firm and soft lips

with me because I slowly open my mouth

in. I close my eyes at the

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

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