Chapter 0212

Mom collapses in the chair after my admission. The heartbroken look in her eyes was undoing me. The disappointed look she gave me nearly made me crumble on the spot.

Travis, who had been holding me, lets go as if I had burned him. He backs away from me slowly until he’s

a few feet away.

I know the rest had varying degrees of shock, but they didn’t matter to me right now. Not when my family was looking at me like they didn’t know me. Like I was a stranger.

“Please tell me you’re playing a sick joke on me,” Mom pleads. “Tell me you didn’t have a child and kept

him hidden from us all these years.”

I want to lie to them just so the heartbroken and disappointed look in their eyes will disappear. I know that I can no longer do that. There was no hiding from this. There was no more running from the truth.

“I’m sorry. So sorry,” I cry as I stumble towards her. “I wanted to tell you, but I was so ashamed.”

to take her hand, but she flinches and pulls it

so afraid of. Ava was right. I

any mistakes.

tarnished.

Ava. I made mistakes that are now hunting me. Sleeping with Calvin

greatest mistake

did it happen…did dad now?” Travis asks as he paces, frustration clear

his steps.

except Calvin and Molly knew.” I look at the ground, unable

my mom’s face.

leave a single thing out. I want to know why the

secret from his family,” Mom growls,

point, I don’t think I had

right now, then I had

and Travis believe I was okay because you were all so worried about me. I felt like I was drowning, Mom.

I fell into depression.

as small as I did back

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