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.”

her hand, but she

is what I’ve been so afraid of. Ava was right. I was the perfect daughter. The one who

any mistakes.

one 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.

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

greatest mistake

dad now?”

his steps.

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

my mom’s face.

don’t leave a single thing out.

secret from his family,”

want to rehash the past, but at this point, I don’t think I had

than they were right now, then I had

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

I fell into depression.

did back then when I learned that Rowan had slept

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