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

got here.

crying once again. I didn’t want to project

hard.

didn’t know where I was going until I was at Kate’s house” I

a few months ago. “I felt so angry on his behalf and

for me when I was little and they treated me with cruel

to stand up for him and call

something I’d prayed for when I was growing up. Other parents noticed

Hell, even Rowan’s

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

No child should suffer through how your Kate and James treated you

for exposing what

this part of me that felt like maybe I shouldn’t have done it.

could have handled it

but I was so angry that I couldn’t even think

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

to say something when my doll bell

door, Letty. I have

so tired and drained. Both emotionally

tomorrow. I know it has been a tiring day

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

tired. I didn’t want to

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and ge

what are you doing here?” I ask

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

that he in

he asks instead of

with me because I step aside

he enters

he asks while

Today he’ll be sleeping

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

down. I almost clap for him

crazy how today turned out.”

and I’ve seen some massive changes in him recently,

wouldn’t have cared. In fact he would

honestly be possible that he

my head to push away those thoughts. I’m

not possible for him to have a change of heart all

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

I feel like I’ve been

walks closer to

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

place where

some reason I am not. My mind was completely

from exhaustion. If I had been thinking clearly, I

this must be hard for you

concerns Gunner”

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

Gunner, but also because of my own

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cups my cheek and makes me look at

don’t know,

cheek and neck. He then pushes a lock of my hair

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

wants. Like I am his world, which

those pretty pink lips, will you let me?” he

stare at

him no‘ I whisper

Push

I should, but I can’t think straight and

in slow motion. Finally, his

I slowly open my mouth and let

close my eyes at the fiery emotions

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

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