Chapter 142
Today was a chilled day. I didn’t have much to do. Noah was already at school, and I was here at home
just relaxing.
After my mental breakdown, I decided to take some much needed break from work. My students weren’t happy about it, but they understood that I hadn’t been myself the last couple of weeks.
I planned to resume after I give birth. My focus now was my kids and the Hope Foundation.
I’m still trying to come to terms with all that happened these past few weeks. Including everyone’s change in behaviour.
The only one who seemed to be consistent with her hateful personality was Emma. The rest seem to
have had an overnight change of heart.
Instead of focusing on those thoughts. I push them away and pick up my phone and dial mom’s number.
She picks up on the first ring.
“Hey mom” I greet her. I wasn’t completely used to calling her that, but I was slowly getting there.
“Ava!” She screams through the phone, always excited to hear from me. “Theo, my love, our darling
daughter is on the phone“.
I hear shuffling before a sort of echo fills the phone. I just know that she’s put me on loudspeaker.
“Hey dad” I greet him too.
Their love honestly fascinated me. They were together since they were thirteen and they’re still together years down the line. More than thirty–five years later.
If I was still chasing after love, then their kind of love is what I would have been looking for. Instead, I’ve accepted that love is just not for me. I’m now set and prepared to spend the rest of my life alone.
Hey darling how are you doing?”
Tm doing good. Not much going on. I just wanted to check up on you guys”
Isus haven’t told them that I am pregnant
to hide my bump with
leed t–shirts. I just didn’t
refusing their visi
As for Ethan. What he’s doing to them is wrong, but I also understand where he is coming from.
He feels ashamed. He feels like he doesn’t deserve their love after what he did. He was hiding from them because he felt like he didn’t deserve their kindness.
I sent him the picture of my recent ultrasound. He wrote back and told me he was thankful. He couldn’t stop saying how he was dying to meet his baby. He was also okay with waiting till the day I deliver to
know the gender of our baby.
“Ava?” Mom calls, pulling me back to the present.
“Sorry. I zoned out a bit” I murmur embarrassed.
“It’s okay darling. I just wanted to know if you’ll be coming this weekend like we had talked about
“Yes, though Noah won’t be joining us this time. It’s his weekend with his father so it’ll just be me and you
guys“.
The Woods and the Sharp family used to have a monthly get together. I wasn’t always invited.
I
When I did get an invitation which was rare, I was treated like I didn’t exist. Like I didn’t matter. I was completely ignored and was treated like a pariah.
The only one who used to talk to me during the gatherings was Noah. Most of the time, I ended up leaving early or crying in the bathroom.
There hasn’t been a get together in months. I guess now that the parents are back, they were back to
having them.
“It’s a bummer that he won’t come but I am still happy that you’ll make it” dad says.
I was about to say something, but something takes my focus away. I hear a bark then a scratch. At first, I think I’m imagining things since there aren’t any dogs in the area. That is until I hear it again.
“Let me call you guys back, dad, I have to check on something” I tell him distractedly.
Okay honey
and move to where the sound seemed to be coming from. Going to the backyard find
y
on my small kitchen garden. It had uprooted everything that I had plented. There was
a whole mess
He looks chastised. Laying on the ground, giving me puppy eyes, but I wasn’t going to buy it.
“I wanted organic food, that’s why I started the damn garden in the first place and let me tell you, it took a lot of time and effort.” He whines, but I am too far gone to listen to him.
“Oh no, no, no. You’re not going to get out of this by flashing your cute, adorable eyes.” Shaking my head I stare at him. Atleast I assume it’s a he. “How are you going to make up for the damage, huh?”
The more I stare at him, the more my heart begins to melt. He is big, fluffy and completely adorable. He had thick black and white far and piercing grey eyes. For some weird reason they reminded me of Rowan
and Noah’s grey eyes.
Today’s Bonus Offer
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?
