Chapter 0166
The only reason our company was still standing was because we were as powerful as the Howell’s. Their pulling out and getting their loyal investors to do the same hadn’t affected us that much.
I wasn’t foolish enough to think it would end there. They may not have been able to destroy our company, but I’m fucking sure they’ll look for another way to get their revenge. I won’t even fight them. They were right to come after me. I deserve everything they plan to do to me for the way I treated their daughter.
“Is that what has you so dejected? That she refused to help you.” Gabe looks at him in sympathy.
Travis lets out a long, tired breath. “No. It’s what she said. She said she didn’t consider me her family. In
other words, I was nothing to her.”
I see the pain it causes him, but I don’t feel any sympathy for him. We were horrible to her. Her treatment
towards us was less than we deserved.
“What did you fucking expect? I keep asking you guys that question,” Gabe grumbles.
“I know. I don’t know why I keep expecting her to be as she was. Every trace of the old Ava is gone. The only time
you see glimpses of her is when she’s with Noah.” Travis slumps in his seat, looking defeated.
My phone rings, drawing my attention from their conversation. I didn’t recognize the number. For a moment, I thought of ignoring it, but I thought otherwise, 1
“Didn’t I tell you I’d get back at you” the familiar voice says.
“What the fuck do you want?” I ask angrily, not in the mood to fucking play his damn games.
Ronny also known as Reaper chuckles. “Don’t you want to know what, or more specifically, who I have?”
I’m not one to be fazed, but damn it. Reaper was a crazy fucker. The fact that he sounded so cocky worried me.
“Spit it out, Ronny, I don’t have all day”
My voice was calm, but a certain kind of panic was rising inside me. He had someone I cared about. That alone was starting to drive me crazy.
“Since you’re so eager to know, I’ll tell you.” He pauses as if trying to rise suspense, but all he was doing was pissing me off. “I have two beautiful ladies with me. The love of your fucking life and the mother of your kid”
My heart stops for a minute before it starts to beat erratically Travis and CA
“What do you want?” My whole fucking body was frozen as if I was encased in a block of ice.
“It’s simple really. I want you to choose who gets to live and who dies. I’ll spare the one you choose and kill the other one. Aren’t I being nice? You get to walk away with one of them instead of me killing all of
them”
Fuck! This was worse than I expected. The fucker was clearly out of his fucking mind.
“Remember, time is ticking. “Tick, toc, tick, tock,” he says right before the lines goes dead.
“What is it?” Gabe asks me, seeing my bothered look.
“Ronny has Ava and Emma” I pause, taking a deep breath to try and calm myself. “He asked me to
choose.”
“Fucking shit!” Travis shouts, his voice reverberating through the room.
This shit was fucked up.
I was going to do everything to get them both back safe and sound. But if push came to shove I knew in a heartbeat who I would choose. Only problem is, would I be forgiven for costing the other her life.
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?
