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.

insists and I proceed to tell her everything from

got here.

I’m crying once again. I didn’t

hard.

at Kate’s house” I tell her.

angry on his behalf and

when I was little and they treated me

and

I was growing up. Other

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

No one stood up for me or what was right. So I decided

you babe. No child should suffer through

for

me that felt

could have handled it

that I couldn’t even think straight.

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was about to say something when my doll

Letty. I have

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

I didn’t want to see

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and ge open the

doing

am mitpitted to see him if I am being honest, I was expecting him to be

shocked that he in here

come in?” he asks instead

because I step aside and let him

enters

asleep?” he asks while taking off his

he’s not here. Today he’ll be sleeping over at

see anger flash in his eyes at his name. For a moment I think he’s going to start

literally forces himself to calm down. I

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

him recently, but today it’s

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

possible that

I’m being absurd. He had nine

It’s not possible for him to have a change of heart all of a sudden.

to consider what

I feel like

closer to

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

where

reason I am not. My

thinking clearly, I would have told him

pain? I know this must be hard

concerns Gunner”

heart skips a bit. I’m shocked that he understands that not all

also because

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but he cups my cheek and makes me look at

don’t know, Rowan” I

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

He stares at me in a

am his world, which is

distract you” he starts. “If I bend and take those pretty pink lips, will you let me?” he ask, as my heart begins to

just stare at

him no‘ I whisper to

Ava. Push him away

but I can’t think straight and my

slow motion. Finally,

must really be wrong with me because I slowly open my

close my eyes at

our mouths mold and our tongues dance

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