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.”

go to take her hand, but she

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

any mistakes.

me is tarnished. Now they know that I am just like them.

same boat as Ava. I made mistakes that are now hunting

greatest mistake of

did this happen? When did it happen…did dad now?” Travis asks as

his steps.

and Molly knew.” I look at

my mom’s face.

single thing out. I want to know

his family,” Mom

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

madder than they were right now, then I had to spill

Rowan married Ava, I was broken. I tried not to let it show. Tried to make you, dad, and Travis believe I was okay because you were all so worried about me. I felt like I was drowning, Mom. Like

I fell into depression.

feeling as small as I did back then when I learned that Rowan had

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