Avery’s pov

Things happened so quickly after her question that my brain still did not have time to process everything all at once.

My silence struck her and she looked up, searches my gaze and those misty eyes paints with disbelief. With a doubtful shake of her head, she turns around to stride back inside the house. I finally found my voice and follow after her.

“Mom!” I call doubt, my voice shaky with pain and fear, terror that she’d be mad with me about this.

She suddenly whirls around, making me freeze. Her eyes are stormy and cloudy as she looks behind me, right at Xade. ” Did you do this to her?” she practically spits out.

I flinch at her tone, not expecting her to sound so harsh. She loved Xade, well the one she could remember, and if she had still remembered him I didn’t think she’d react the way she’s doing now.

Not when she had been the one to push me for years to confess to him about my feelings. She hadn’t even liked Kyan when I had been with him.

nothing but a stranger

toward me and holding my hand.

lifts her hand and her palm imprint on his cheek. The sound is harsh

and this was also my fault.

streamed down her cheeks and

“I thought you were smarter than that Avery. I thought you promised to put education first and not boys?

me, I could

when I told her the news, but I hoped that she’d smile

her voice cut me

voice firm but soft. “No one fooled anyone, it

at me. still so young with a bright future ahead of you! I didn’t work so much to have you knocked

protectively and like a coward I press my forehead to his back,

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