Chapter 0340

I try to pull my eyes away from hers, but it’s difficult. Her pain is gripping, and I’m the one it has a hold on.

She’s in a corner all by herself. Mother was busy socializing, and so was Trevor. Her posture and look weren’t really inviting at all. She looked like she could shrink in on herself at any moment, but what disturbed me most was the anguish in her eyes. I understood pain; after all, haven’t I been through it already? Countless times, in fact.

Now I understand where her pain is coming from. I understand the cause of her depressed and

sad state. It’s Gunner. Her son.

“What are you looking at, Ava?” Letty’s voice sounds far away.

It’s like I was hypnotized. I couldn’t look away. I couldn’t see anything except her.

Calvin shakes me, and with great difficulty, I turn to him. He looks at me questioningly. I

didn’t understand it, but for some weird reason, I wanted to comfort Emma.

“Why are you staring at Emma like a deer caught in headlights?” Corrine asks, her eyebrows

furrowed.

shifted my gaze back to the woman, but her eyes were no longer on

pain…” I stammer the two words, unable to

up with her… From what I hear, guilt and regret are hitting her hard, and she’s not

gone, or they’ve turned to hate, or he’s just hiding them. Burying them inside

and some others. Trevor was there, but you could tell there was a bit of tension

I let go of my obsession with Rowan. Looking at it as

slept with Rowan, we wouldn’t have gotten married, Rowan and Emma

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have been painful losing Rowan, but I think that probably I would have moved on later on and so would Calvin. Hell, I think he’d already started moving on before

Emma.

be right back.” I excuse myself and leave the table.

go inside and just sit in the living room for a little while. The realization that I might have been the cause of the heartache and sorrow of

Rowan, Calvin, and Emma made is on them and that it isn’t my fault for the mistakes they made, but I still can’t help but feel that I was the catalyst; my obsession

Ava?” Teresa’s voice startles me, and I almost fall.

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