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

why the hell did this kiss affect me so much?

don’t fucking get

frustration, wishing I could erase the feel of

so

holding.

day lights out of me,”

beating heart.

he grins. “I thought you heard us, given Gunner and Noah didn’t

them munching

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just a little bit

slips from his face. “Are you still thinking

he didn’t need to know that I was

different thing.

for breakfast,

fry up”

his fist up in the air. “I love fry–ups; it’s like

at once.”

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

you almost done?” Noah asks. “I’m so hungry.”

few more minutes, and I’ll be done. Why don’t you go wait in the living

I finish up?”

the same time,

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

we should have given

that they

at that. It’s not that Calvin was a bad cook. He just didn’t make it like I did. Their

mine.

and brought some

him as I get back to frying

are you holding up, all things considered?” I

that now everyone

like a dirty secret.

was born. I didn’t mind it being just the two of us, but I knew

mother had a family. Gunner

and Kate weren’t people worth

safe for Gunner to be

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of my resentment towards them. They were no longer part

didn’t have any right to keep him

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