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.

were no longer on me. Instead, they were firmly fixed on

words, unable to complete

hitting her hard, and she’s not taking it well,” Letty informs us, her eyes drifting to

Emma are gone, or they’ve turned to hate, or

Gabe, his dad, and some others. Trevor was there, but you could tell there was a bit

I let go of my obsession with Rowan. Looking at it as a mature adult, could it be that my obsession ruined

none of the things that happened that night would have happened. I wouldn’t have slept with Rowan, we wouldn’t have gotten married, Rowan and Emma wouldn’t have broken up, and neither Emma nor Rowan would have spiraled, meaning Emma wouldn’t have

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on later on and so would

Emma.

up. “I’ll be right back.”

and just sit in the living room for a little while. The realization that I might have

everyone makes choices. That everyone has their own paths to follow. I perfectly understand that ultimately every choice Rowan, Calvin, and Emma made is on them and that it isn’t my fault for the mistakes they made, but

voice startles me, and I

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