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.”

but she flinches

so afraid of. Ava was right. I was

any mistakes.

that thought things through before, except for that one time. Now their image of me is tarnished. Now they know that I am just like them. Human.

Ava. I made mistakes

mistake of

dad now?” Travis asks as

his steps.

I look at the ground, unable to

my mom’s face.

leave a single thing out. I want to know

from his family,” Mom growls, her eyes

didn’t want to rehash the past, but at this point, I don’t think I had any choice. If I didn’t want

now, then I had to

Tried to make you, dad, and Travis believe I was okay because

I fell into depression.

sit down on the grass, feeling as small as I did back then when I learned that Rowan

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