Chapter 106 A note

The bright light coming through my window makes me open my eyes. Instead of getting up

immediately, I just stay in bed for a while as I rub my belly and feel my baby move inside me.

I look at the calendar on my bedside table and realize that today I just hit the sixth–month

milestone. It’s scary to have a baby. The whole journey is filled with uncertainty. I always make

sure to thank God each time I pass a milestone with my baby, knowing not all babies get to be

born.

After saying a small thank–you prayer, I get up and move downstairs. I could always shower later,

but right now I am hungry. With everything that happened yesterday, I forgot to eat.

Thinking about yesterday brings me to what happened with Rowan. I still can’t believe that I let

him kiss me or that I actually enjoyed it.

It bugs me so much that I wanted more. I wanted him to deepen the kiss. I wanted him to take it

further. I can blame it on the hormones, but we all know that I’d be lying to myself.

Rowan hurt me so much. The fact that I wanted him yesterday makes me hate myself just a little

bit. I promised myself to move on, yet there I was making out with him in my living room.

I want to believe that Rowan has changed, but I just can’t. Even if, by some miracle, he has, don’t

you think it’s a little too late for us? Too much has already happened for us to make something out

of the mess he created.

Taking out the ingredients for breakfast, I get to work. No matter what I try, I still can’t stop

thinking about the

hell did this

don’t fucking get it,

could erase the feel

voice startles me so much that I let go of the

holding.

day lights out of me,” I say with my hand pressing

beating heart.

he grins. “I thought you heard us, given Gunner

to said boys to find them munching

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a little bit

you still thinking about what

lie, but he didn’t need to know that I was thinking

different thing.

for

fry up” I

the air. “I love fry–ups; it’s

at once.”

that one day Emma will see the error of her ways and mend her fences with Gunner before

almost done?” Noah asks. “I’m

I’ll be done. Why don’t you go wait in the

I finish up?”

they say at the same time, before rushing to

takes the cleaning tools from me and proceeds to clean up the mess I’d made. “Sorry

have given you more

that they wanted

that. It’s not that Calvin was a bad cook. He just didn’t make

mine.

finished cooking and brought some

get back

all things considered?”

He pauses. “I feel relieved that now everyone knows

hidden away like a dirty secret. After my grandfather

being just the two of us, but I knew it was unfair to him

had a family. Gunner

eyes, Travis and Kate weren’t people worth knowing, but they’d treated Noah well, so

Gunner to be around

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I should really let go of my resentment towards them. They were no longer part of my life, so it didn’t matter

to keep him from her side

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