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.

once again. I didn’t want

hard.

was at Kate’s

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

I was little and they treated me

up for him and

I’d prayed for when I was growing up. Other

me, yet they said nothing. Hell,

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

suffer through

Gunner. You were right for

so relieved. There was this part of me that felt

could have handled it

I was so angry that I couldn’t even think straight.

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

was about to say something when my

at my door, Letty. I have

so tired and drained.

it has been a tiring

ignoring the person on the door.

I didn’t want

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and ge open

you doing here?” I ask in

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

her I’m shocked that he

come in?” he asks instead

because I step aside

enters

he asks while taking off

not here. Today he’ll

his name. For a moment I think he’s going to start a

forces himself to calm down. I almost clap for him

crazy how today turned out.”

I’ve seen some massive changes in him recently, but today

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

possible that he

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

possible for him to have a change of heart

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

I feel like I’ve

closer to

body heat.

where I am

but for some reason I am not. My mind was completely

thinking clearly, I would have told him to

ease your pain? I know this must be

concerns Gunner”

heart skips a bit. I’m shocked that he understands that

also because of my

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his feet, but he cups my cheek and makes

don’t know,

softly. His fingers skimming over my cheek and neck.

in a way that I

Like I am his

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

stare

I whisper to

Push him away

think straight and my

if in slow motion. Finally,

I slowly open my mouth and let

close my eyes at the fiery emotions

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

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