Chapter 0209

Rowan.

“Is Noah coming?” my mother asks me.

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“Not today, mom. I forgot to let Ava know, and I didn’t want to spring this on her all of a sudden,” I tell her

as I walk into Kate’s home.

It was our monthly get–together. Just like the last one, I didn’t want to be here. The only reason I was there was because I’d promised Mom that I would attend.

“I’ve missed him so much, and so has Kate. She really wanted to see

him.” She pauses. “Now that she

and Ava are estranged, the only time she gets to see Noah is during these get–togethers.”

I wanted to feel sorry for her, but I don’t. That makes me a bastard, sure, but I believe that we were all

our punishment for

time,” I say as I walk

for years. She would do anything for her best friend. The last

is to stand there for almost thirty minutes just listening to how Kate

hear about someone else’s suffering when I was

of my hand. After all, they’ve lived here for years. This is the same house where Ava and I got married. The same house she tried to escape when she found out she

stop dead in my tracks. Mom, who was following behind me, collides with

hell, Rowan?” she asks, but I don’t

don’t answer. My eyes stare at

“Rowan? What is it?”

as I try to form the

remembered the day I caught Ava trying to escape. Looking back now, I can’t imagine how my life. would have turned out had she managed

didn’t happen and we should

foolish I

heart more times than I can count. Right now, I don’t know what to even think. Part of me wishes I had

on me every time I remember all I put

should have tried harder, maybe then I wouldn’t have this much

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families have a

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