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

got here.

once again. I didn’t want to project my pain, but it

hard.

going until I was at Kate’s house” I

angry on his behalf and

did for me when I was little and they

for him and call Emma

I was growing up.

nothing. Hell, even

what was right. So I decided to do it for

should suffer through how your Kate and James treated

treated Gunner. You were right for exposing

me that felt like maybe I shouldn’t have done it. Like

could have handled it

that I couldn’t even think straight. I

  1. about as I

say something when my doll

door, Letty. I have to

so tired and drained. Both emotionally and physically.

We’ll talk tomorrow. I know it has been

both say our goodnights and hang up. I consider ignoring the person on the door. Like I

tired. I didn’t want

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slowly use up and ge open the

what are you doing here?” I ask in

see him if I am being honest, I was

her I’m shocked that he

he asks

I step aside and

enters my

he asks while

here. Today he’ll be sleeping

a moment I think he’s going to start a fight over

literally forces himself to calm down. I almost clap for him at his show

out.” He pauses. “How are you holding

in him recently, but today it’s just

have cared. In fact he would

possible that he has

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

never did. It’s not possible for him to have a change of heart all of a

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

feel like I’ve been

closer

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

every place where I am

pushing him away, but for some reason I am

I had been thinking clearly, I would have told

this must be

concerns Gunner”

bit. I’m shocked that he understands that not all of what I am feeling

Gunner, but also because of

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but he cups my cheek

don’t know, Rowan”

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

in a way that I

he wants. Like I am his world, which

those pretty pink

just stare

no‘ I whisper

Ava. Push him away

should, but I can’t think straight and my mouth won’t move to form the

in slow motion.

because I slowly open my mouth and

eyes at the

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

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