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.

tell her everything from how it started to

got here.

done, I’m crying once again. I didn’t want to project

hard.

was going until I was at

“I felt so angry on

when I was little and

and call Emma out on

for when I was growing up. Other parents

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

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

babe. No child should suffer through how your Kate and James

You were right for exposing what a bitch she

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

could have handled it

I couldn’t even think straight. I

  1. I drove is; Like

was about to say something when my doll bell

at my door, Letty. I have to

and drained. Both

tomorrow. I know it

consider ignoring the person

tired. I didn’t want to

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slowly use up and

you doing here?” I ask

being

shocked that

I come in?” he asks instead

must be wrong with me because I step aside and let him in. He gives me a

he enters my

Noah asleep?” he asks while taking

here. Today he’ll

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

down. I almost clap for him at his show of

turned out.” He pauses. “How

in him recently, but today

he would have lashed out at

be 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 a change of heart all of a

take a while to consider what I just

I feel like

walks closer

his body heat. I

every place where I am

should be pushing him away, but for some reason I am not. My mind was completely empty

If I had been thinking clearly, I would have told

pain? I know this

concerns Gunner”

understands that not

but also because of

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cups my cheek and makes

don’t know,

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

at me in a way that I

Like I am

those pretty pink lips, will you

stare at

I

no, Ava. Push him away

straight and my mouth won’t

if in slow motion. Finally, his firm and soft lips

with me because I slowly open my mouth and

in. I close my eyes at the fiery

feel him in every fiber as our mouths mold and our tongues

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