Chapter 0125
“You forget I know you better than you know yourself brother” he takes a seat opposite me
“Ava” her name slips out of my mouth in an anguished tone
“You care about her”
“Of course I fucking care about her. She’s the mother of my son” I snap at him, frustrated
The whole thing was frustrating me. She was spiraling out of control and I just didn’t know how to help. her. I didn’t know how to be what she needs. I’ve spent so much time pushing her away, that I don’t know what makes her tick.
“It’s more than that big brother, you just refuse to open your fucking eyes and see it” he drawls.
He’s been on and on about that one issue. That my concern for Ava stem from feelings that ran much
deeper. We keep arguing about that. I think I would fucking know if I was in love with her. I care about her,
and I have feelings I can’t describe, but love? I don’t think so.
“How’s she doing?” he asks when I don’t say anything else.
“She’s pregnant”
He stares and me with wide eyes and an open jaw. “With Ethan’s baby?”
“Who else would she pregnant for?” I ask him in irritation.
When I found out yesterday, something just shifted inside me. Knowing she was expectant with that
bastard’s baby just made everything more real. I had been blocking the knowledge that she had slept with
Ethan out.
When I found out, there was this primal part of me that wanted to kill Ethan for touching what’s mine.
After that I blocked it out. Tried pretending that it didn’t happen because that’s the only way I could calm
myself down. Her pregnancy now was proof that she did sleep with another man and for some reason it fucking hurts and drives me insane knowing that.
It’s completely unreasonable. I wanted her to move on. I wanted her to leave me alone. I was planning to
woe Emma and marry her later on. Yet now that I know that Ava had moved on. Moved on to the point
she felt comfortable enough to let another man touch. I feel like a fucking piece of me died. I can’t
explain it and I don’t know why, but I feel lost.
“So what is she going to do?” he pulls me back to the present with his question,
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“I don’t know” I whisper, staring at the amber liquid in my glass
I debate telling him what happened at the cliff, but I stop myself. She has been through too much already.
I wasn’t going to tell my brother what she tried doing in her darkest moment. She deserved to be protected and that was what I was going to do.
Sir, this came in for you” Mike, my bartender hands me a small envelope.
He leaves immediately after.
“What is it?” Gabe asks curiously, moving to the edge of his seat.
“I don’t know” I tell him as I open it.
A piece of paper falls out. I unfold it and read it.
[I’m not one to go after kids, so you can rest assured that I won’t go after your son. I can’t say the same. for the rest of your loved ones though. I’m coming for you Rowan and everyone you hold dear]
It was signed in the Reapers insignia.
I should fear, but I don’t. All that registers is that they won’t go after Noah. That’s all that matters to me right now.
I never want to feel the fear I felt when I saw her on that cliff. It was time for Noah to come home. He has always been Ava life line, and now more than ever she needs him.
Synopsis
Ava: Nine years ago I did something terrible. it wasn’t one of my best moments but I saw an opportunity to have the guy I’ve loved since I was a young girl and I took it. Fast forward to years later and I’m tired of living in a loveless marriage. I want to free both of us from a marriage that should never have taken place. They say if you love something…. It was time to let him go. I know he’ll never love me and that I’ll never be his choice. His heart will always belong to Her and despite my sins, I deserve to be loved. Rowan: Nine years ago, I was so in love I could barely see right. I ruined it when I made the worst mistake of my life and in the process I lost the love of my life. I knew I had to step up in my responsibility and so I did, with an unwanted wife. With the wrong woman. Now she has once again flipped my life by divorcing me. To make matters even more complicated, the love of my life is back in town. Now the only question is, who is the right woman? Is it the girl I fell head over heels in love with years ago? or is it my ex wife, the woman I never wanted but had to marry?
