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

did this kiss affect me so much?

don’t fucking

I could erase the feel of his lips on

startles me so much that I let go of the

holding.

living day lights out of me,” I say with my

beating heart.

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

turn to said boys to find them munching

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okay, I was just a

“Are you

It was a lie, but he didn’t need

different thing.

you making for breakfast,

fry up”

up in the air. “I love fry–ups; it’s

food at

one day Emma will

done?” Noah asks. “I’m so hungry.”

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

I finish up?”

the same time, before

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

we should have given you more time to yourself. It’s just

they wanted your

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

mine.

and brought some over anyway, so it’s not a big

I get back to frying

you holding up, all things considered?” I

relieved that now everyone knows about

like a dirty secret. After my grandfather

the two of us, but I

family. Gunner deserves to

people worth knowing, but they’d treated Noah well, so

was safe for Gunner to be around

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longer

Emma didn’t have any right to keep him from

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