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

and let her question bounce in my head

have a branch here in the city and they were happy to have me

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

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

reason why you decided to get your life back?" Her question

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

"What about him?"

can't try to be 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

in her note book before turning back

you 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 end up with Rowan, given he was always your first

tear something inside me. I feel offended and hurt that she would think this way about me and about my intentions to mend things with

I just stare at her. No words come out of my mouth. It opens and closes, but nothing. I lack the words to express what I feel at

that's what I am thinking, then

thing. Calvin and Ava are friends so he knows that she and Rowan are together. He knows Rowan chose Ava. What's to stop him from thinking that the reason I am now begging for forgiveness is because Rowan didn't want me? I've was hang up

Mia. I am not doing this because I am settling but because I genuinely want forgiveness and a chance

why should

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