Chapter 141
“What? It’s true and I am so proud of you”
He gives me a mischievous smile and I just know he got me right where he wanted me.
“Can I play video games then since I’m a math genius?”
I just knew it. He has been battering me up.
I sigh. “Fine, but only for an hour”
He rushes up the stairs screaming thank you over and over again making me smile in the process.
“Hey, Maria. You’re free to leave” I tell our nanny as I walk into the kitchen.
“Are you sure?”
“Yes. Now go
She smiles at me before taking her things. Fifteen minutes later she’s gone and I wish I hadn’t insisted on
her to leaving.
With Noah in his room. I was alone. I had nothing to occupy my mind and so my thoughts started running
rampant.
I was just contemplating starting dinner early when my front door opened.
“Yoohoo. Ava where are you?”
Letty voice brings a smile to my face.
“In the kitchen” I shout back.
Minutes later, she walks into the room and I am surprised to see Corrine following behind her.
Look who I found. We got here at the same time” Letty says sitting at the kitchen island.
I’d told Letty how Corrine stood up for me against Anita. She has immediately liked her, reasoning that
anyone who stood up for me was worth her respect.
you doing here?” I ask Corrine.
taureitt and thought to myself, she’s ready, I’ve always wanted to
There was this part of me that was sceptical. It wanted to shut her off. Instead I push it back. It was time! stopped pushing people away.
“Well, welcome to my humble home”
She smiles and I smile back at her. Genuinely happy that she was here.
“I came for an entirely different reason. Have you seen the gossip column? It was posted like an hour ago Letty asks.
“No. Why?”
She hands me a phone and I read the caption. With each word I read, my mood sours.
[Billionaire Rowan Woods seen going on a lunch date with ex–wife, Ava Sharp months after their divorce
and weeks after rumours of him dating her elder sister, Emma Sharpl
Below was a picture of Rowan escorting me to the restaurant with his hand on my lower back.
“Shit” I curse. “This is going to cause unnecessary drama”
Emma was going to shit a brick. I wasn’t afraid of her, but I just didn’t want trouble. The image portrayed a certain intimacy that wasn’t truly there. Anyone looking at it was going to think that there was something
more between us.
“Is there something going on that I’m unaware of?” Letty asks as Corrine just stares between the two of
“Nothing. He unexpectedly showed up at my appointment and then asked me if we could talk over lunch” after that I recount everything that happened. Including his apology.
When I am done, I am even more confused than I was before. Things were just not making sense no
matter which angle I tried looking at it from.
What if he is genuinely sorry?” Letty asks.
question I kept asking myself since he apologized. I kept pushing it to the back of my mind
I was just not strong enough to deal with it right now.
sigh in defeat Forgiveness is something that has to be eamed and so far he has done
naged to do is leave me with confusion and more une
His quick three hundred and sixty degree turn just doesn’t seem genuine. There is no way someone can
change that fast.
“What do you think Corrine?” Letty asks her since she had been too quiet.
“I think these are the actions of a man who doesn’t know he’s in love”
sn’t love me”
At that I burst out laughing. “That’s a good one Corrine. Rowan doesn’t
I mean come on, he said as much on that day he came bulging into my house, avenging his lovely Emma.
“Think about it though” she insists.
“She may be onto something. I mean why would he all of a sudden start caring for you? It doesn’t make sense unless he already cared for you but never realized. And again why does he suddenly want to be around you now that you’re divorced? Corrine may be right. He may have been in love with you long
before and it took losing you for those feelings to come to the surface
I didn’t want to listen to their nonsense. So instead of answering their questions, I change the subject. They don’t push it and I am thankful for that
Everything after that is perfect. I have a great time with both of them. Knowing very well that now Corrine
was part of our inner circle.
Even though everything was great, I couldn’t help thinking of what they said.
Rowan can’t possibly be in love with me. They had to be wrong because Rowan has only ever loved one
woman and her name is Emma Sharp.
Evelyn M.M
Author
Note: The new character I’m going to introduce (the hot neighbor) is not a love interest. His role in the story will make sense later on And on that note take care and stay safe, bye t
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?
