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."

talked the last time, you told me you are ready to get your life back together. How's that going on

breath, I fully focus on her and let her question bounce in my head as I try lock down what I

previous firm. They have a branch here

expecting. 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

I took 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

get your life back?" Her question pulls me

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

"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

in her note book before turning back

a bandaid. I am afraid that you are settling for them since you

I feel offended and hurt that she would think this way about me and about

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

That was my intention. Gunner may be too young to understand everything but if that's what I am

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. What's to stop him from thinking that the reason

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

should I

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