hapter 0162
“Ava…”
I cut him off. I don’t want to hear a thing from his damn mouth.
“Every time you took Emma’s side, every time you treated me like trash. Every fucking time you laughed when Rowan tore my heart to pieces because I hurt you precious sister, did you consider me you family? What about the times you said I deserved the pain I was going through? Or when father and mother ignored me like I didn’t matter? What about all the time you all shunned me? Was I still your family?”
He doesn’t say anything. But what is there to say anyway? He knows the truth. He didn’t consider me family back then. To him and the rest I was nothing but an unwanted nuisance. One they would do
anything to get rid of.
“So tell me, if you didn’t consider me your family back then, what makes you think I’ll consider you my
family now? Whatever you are trying to do by playing the family card with me won’t work
My eyes pierce his. I used to note the difference between us. Travis and Emma didn’t look alike, but by
just seeing them you could guess that they’re related. I on the other hand looked nothing like any of them. That s
should have been the first clue that I wasn’t one of them.
“Let’s be honest, you’ve never cared about me. The only reason you’re here is because you think you can
use me, but I won’t let you. Go home, Travis and don’t ever darken my doorstep again.”
With that, I push him away and slam the door hard. I lean against it breathing hard. Its quiet for a few
minutes before I hear his car start up and speed off.
Feeling the need to escape the house, I take my car keys. I was just leaving when I notice the clothes Rowan bought. I take them. Planning to pass by a shelter to give them away.
Within minutes, I’m on the road. My mind was all over the place. First with Rowan and now Travis. The audacity they had to think that they could just walk into my life and demand things. The thought that everything can be easily forgotten was completely delusional,
If Rowan wasn’t Noah’s dad, I would have demanded he stay out of my life completely. Everything that I do. I do with Noah’s interest at heart. I’ve been tempted so many times to take Noah far away, but the love he has for his father stops me every time.
I’ve wanted to move far away from here, but I know that the move will hurt Noah. Rowan thinks Noah loves me more. He just doesn’t realize that he loves him just as much.
Sporting an ice cream shop, I decide to stop. The front was packed so I park at the back instead:
A little comfort is what I need right now. I’ll eat some ice cream while I try to clear my head.
I get into the dainty and cozy shop and order myself a big bowl of ice cream. I usually can eat any flavor of ice cream, just as long as it’s ice cream, but on the days I’m feeling down and need comfort, I go for plain vanilla.
My mind wonders to Travis. I’m not sure about how my parents are going about everything. I’m not the revenge type of person. I usually just let karma do her thing because the way she fucks people up is on
another level.
I’m on the fence about the revenge thing. Part of me wants to see them crash and burn. The other part just wants to let everything go and just forget they exist. Does it make me evil that the bigger part wants
to see them in pain? That it wants to see them suffer?
I finish my ice cream and leave still as conflicted as I was when I entered the place. Maybe talking to
someone will give me some clarity.
Deciding to go see my therapist I head towards my car. I don’t get near it though because someone grabs.
me and covers my mouth and nose before I can scream. Within seconds, everything disappears and I fall into darkness.
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?
