Chapter 0500

Emma

I walk into Mia's office for yet another therapy session. Just like we always do, I first take off my shoes before sitting down.

"Hi Emma," Mia asks, smiling at me. Her smile, just like always, is inviting and warm. It makes you calm and relaxed.

"Hi Mia"

"Okay, you know what we have to do first, right?"

She asks and I nod my head.

I take a deep breath before closing my eyes. I sort through my thoughts. I don't hold onto them for long or dwell on them. Instead, I let them go without trying to dive into them.

I push out the thoughts about Calvin, Gunner, my brother, mom and Ava. I clear my head until there is nothing. Until my head is empty and I am at peace.

Once that's done, I open my eyes.

"Are you ready for us to begin?" Mia, who was watching me, asks.

I nod "Yes."

me you are ready to get your life back together. How's that going on for

her and let her question bounce in my

contact with my previous firm. They have a branch here in the city and they were happy

It's been two years since I had a mental breakdown because of guilt and out of nowhere, I quit my job. I never expected that they'd take me back, given that I didn't give them a

the leap to call them and ask for my old job back, I expected them to turn me away and tell me to fuck off. I was surprised when my senior got excited at hearing me. She immediately accepted my request, even after I told her that I wasn't coming back to the city I'd called home

there a particular reason why you decided to get your

think about it. Gunner is the reason I am doing all this. He is the

"What about him?"

a good mother to him when my life is a mess now, can I?" I give her a sheepish smile. "I quit my job and moved with my mum while I was basically wasting

something in her note book before turning

are saying, but I am worried that you are using Gunner and Calvin as a bandaid. I am afraid that you are settling for them since you didn't

hurt that she would think this way about me and about

her. No words come out of my mouth. It opens and closes,

may be too young to understand everything but if that's what I am thinking, then that's what Calvin will think too. Are you sure that you haven't settled for

I understand. Hell, if the tables were turned, I would have thought the same thing. Calvin and Ava are friends so he knows that she and Rowan are together. He knows Rowan chose Ava.

Mia. I am not doing this because I am settling but because I genuinely want forgiveness and a chance at redemption. I want to be in Gunner and

should I believe

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