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

what I’ve been so afraid of. Ava was right. I was

any mistakes.

Now their image of me is tarnished. Now they know that I am just like them. Human. The Ace card

same boat as Ava. I made

mistake

did it happen…did dad now?” Travis asks

his steps.

knew.” I look at the ground, unable to face

my mom’s face.

a single thing out. I want to know why the hell you’ve

from his family,” Mom growls, her

but at this point, I don’t think I had any choice.

were right now, then I had to spill

was broken. I tried not to let it show. Tried to make you, dad, and Travis

I fell into depression.

small as I did back then when I learned

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