Chapter 0215
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Calvin.
I wait. I wait patiently for her to come back. I didn’t know where she went, but I can take a pretty damn good guess. She was mad; I understand that more than anything. If anyone is pissed off and hurt at what Emma has been doing, then it’s me. She has caused me and Gunner more hurt than I’m ever willing to
admit.
I hear the door unlock, but I don’t move. I’m not even sure what the hell I am doing here. The boys are at
my house with the nanny. For some reason, I feel like I should be here.
Ava stops dead in her tracks. “Cal, I didn’t expect you to still be here.”
Her eyes were red and puffy. She has been crying: that much is clear. Words honestly fail me. I have no
fucking idea what the hell to tell her.
“I thought I would wait for you,” I say as she takes a seat. “Where have you been?”
I knew where she went after she realized that Emma was Gunner’s mom. That was hours ago, I don’t
know where she went after. I’m sure confronting Emma didn’t take almost three hours.
“I needed to think, so I just drove around,” she whispers. “Gosh! This is so hard for me. Not only because I love Gunner like my own and it kills me to watch him hurt, but also because I see myself in him.”
I don’t know much about Ava. I was about two years ahead of her in school. We weren’t friends back then, and I didn’t pay attention to any girl that wasn’t Emma.
Even now, I don’t know much about her. I kept myself closed off. I felt it would be unfair to dig deep into her life when I barely told her anything deep about mine. All I know is that Rowan hurt her pretty badly. Just like Emma destroyed.
“Why?” I ask curiously.
“Because I suffered the same fate as him when I was younger. I was unwanted. For me, it was much harder because I was unwanted by both my family and Rowan’s family. I didn’t understand why they didn’t like me. I tried so hard to get them to love me, but they never did. In fact, it got worse as I got older.”
I didn’t know that about her Unlike other boys who tried getting close to her so they could get close to Emma, i didn’t. I thought their tactic was downright cruel. Using one sister to get another was utterly disgusting
I’m so sorry, Ava
There was nothing else I could say to comfort her. I don’t even know how to comfort Gunner when he asks about Emma, so how can I comfort Ava?
“It’s okay. It was a long time ago, and I’m slowly starting to heal” she pauses. “In any case, this isn’t about me. I want to know the truth. How did Emma end up being Gunner’s mom?”
I sigh. I was dreading this question. Not because I don’t want to tell her what happened, but because I don’t want to remember the painful memories.
“Well, you know about my love for her from high school,” I start and she nods.
“Yes, definitely. Everyone knew it, just like everyone knew I wanted Rowan.”
This was so messed up. We both somehow ended up with the people we wanted, but in the end, it turned out to be a nightmare. Both of us got hurt really, fucking badly. Maybe we should have stayed away from them. It seems like Rowan and Emma were meant to be. It’s like Ava and I got punished for getting in the
way of that.
“We’ll I tried everything to get her to notice me, but she never did. It wasn’t even possible when the person I had to compete against was Rowan. Like you said when we met again, I was nerdy, Cal. There was nothing S**y about me,” I began, but Ava interrupted me by chuckling.
“Have you seen yourself in glasses? You’re like a woman’s nerdy fantasy. You probably star in ladies dreams as either a hot professor or a librarian.”
I laugh at that despite myself.
“Maybe now, but not back then. Emma was probably disgusted with me. I mean, come on, even I have to admit I looked terrible back then. I wouldn’t have wanted to date myself” I continued.
“We finished high school, and in the summer before college, I decided to work on myself. It took a lot of effort, but I got to the point where I was actually proud of how I looked. I even started getting appreciative
glances from girls”
It had been the highlight of my life at that age. It felt good to be attractive. It felt fucking great.
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?
