Chapter 0212
Mom collapses in the chair after my admission. The heartbroken look in her eyes was undoing me. The disappointed look she gave me nearly made me crumble on the spot.
Travis, who had been holding me, lets go as if I had burned him. He backs away from me slowly until he’s
a few feet away.
I know the rest had varying degrees of shock, but they didn’t matter to me right now. Not when my family was looking at me like they didn’t know me. Like I was a stranger.
“Please tell me you’re playing a sick joke on me,” Mom pleads. “Tell me you didn’t have a child and kept
him hidden from us all these years.”
I want to lie to them just so the heartbroken and disappointed look in their eyes will disappear. I know that I can no longer do that. There was no hiding from this. There was no more running from the truth.
“I’m sorry. So sorry,” I cry as I stumble towards her. “I wanted to tell you, but I was so ashamed.”
I go to take her hand, but she flinches and pulls it away.
This is what I’ve been so afraid of. Ava was right. I was the perfect daughter. The one who never made.
any mistakes.
The one that thought things through before, except for that one time. Now their image of me is tarnished. Now they know that I am just like them. Human. The Ace card I had over Ava was gone.
I was in the same boat as Ava. I made mistakes that are now hunting me. Sleeping with Calvin remains
the greatest mistake of my life.
“H–How did this happen? When did it happen…did dad now?” Travis asks as he paces, frustration clear in
his steps.
“Dad didn’t know. No one except Calvin and Molly knew.” I look at the ground, unable to face the look on
my mom’s face.
“Start from the beginning and don’t leave a single thing out. I want to know why the hell you’ve kept my
grandson a secret from his family,” Mom growls, her eyes turning fierce.
I didn’t want to rehash the past, but at this point, I don’t think I had any choice. If I didn’t want them to be
even madder than they were right now, then I had to spill it.
“When Rowan married Ava, I was broken. I tried not to let it show. Tried to make you, dad, and Travis believe I was okay because you were all so worried about me. I felt like I was drowning, Mom. Like my
I fell into depression.
I sit down on the grass, feeling as small as I did back then when I learned that Rowan had slept with Ava.
“I was fading away. I didn’t eat, I didn’t sleep, and I didn’t attend classes. In fact, I rarely left my room. Molly noticed this. She started pushing, and when I refused to get better, she threatened to call you guys to let you know. I didn’t want you to know how I was struggling. I didn’t want Ava to find out how tough
things were for me.”
I was lost in memory. I had so much bitterness and resentment towards Ava back then. I thought if she ever found out how far I’d fallen, she would have been ecstatic. It was probably a year and a half later that
I discovered she had been going through her own kind of hell
“Things were going well after that. Molly became my anchor. My grades were improving, and I didn’t constantly cry or think about Rowan every second.” I take a deep breath “It was by coincidence that I met
Calvin again. It turns out we went to the same Uni and he was also Molly’s assignment partner.”
“I didn’t really talk to him. After all, we weren’t friends. I tolerated him because he was Molly’s friend, and
when he didn’t show any remnants of the obsession he had for me in high school, I stopped being weary
of him. We co–existed. He stayed out of my way and I stayed out of his.”
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?
