Chapter 0216
“I joined college and continued working further on myself. I became unrecognizable. I drowned in college life. The girls, parties, and booze. Life was great. I had girls all over me. I had my pick from a large pool. Soon, I started to forget about Emma. There was no use crying over a girl that didn’t want me when I
could have someone else‘
Ava nods her head in understanding. I know she didn’t enjoy college life. Not after she fell pregnant at eighteen. She then became a mother and wife. She didn’t have time to be a normal college student with no worries or responsibilities. At least I got to have that experience before Emma appeared back in my
life.
“Everything was going great until my grandfather had a stroke and became paralyzed. My grandfather raised me after both my parents died in an accident. He was all that I had given; I didn’t know any other family member alive. I changed schools so that I could be closer to him. It was easier to take care of him
that way”
Ava’s eyes widens as she swings her finger back and forth. “You transferred to the university Emma and
Rowan were”
“Yeah.” I simply answer. “I saw them around campus, but unlike before, I kept my distance. I didn’t want
trouble, and besides, I had a lot going on. I didn’t have any time for meaningful relationships except for
hookups, and that was totally fine with me. I had locked my heart after Emma’s constant rejection. I
wasn’t willing to let anyone in”
I still loved her, and it killed me seeing her and Rowan almost every day, but I accepted it. She simply
didn’t want me. There was nothing I could do about that.
“My grandfather passed away, and it was the most challenging time of my fucking life. I took a few weeks
off school only to come back to the news that the campus‘ IT couple had broken up. I honestly couldn’t believe it. Especially when I learned that Rowan had cheated on Emma. It was honestly unbelievable.”
I never expected that. Everyone was sure of their love. Sure that they would stay together and get married. No one ever thought that Rowan would sleep with someone else.
“After that, Emma came back as a totally different person. It was like she was dead on the inside. The few times you saw her outside her dorm, she looked like a fucking zombie. I wanted to comfort her, but I knew she wouldn’t let me near her. It was a coincidence that my project partner turned out to be her best friend and roommate.”
didn’t want to be involved with anyone in Emma’s life. When Molly was assigned as my partner, I dreaded it. It turns out it didn’t have to. She was actually a chill girl.
My eyes shift to Ava. She looks captivated. Like she couldn’t even remove her eyes from mine, even if
she wanted to.
“I tried to stay out of her way. I didn’t want to be a nuisance like I had been back in high school. I realized you couldn’t force love and Emma definitely didn’t love me”
It had been a sad realization, but a much–needed one.
“You’re right,” Ava says sadly. “If only I’d realized that earlier, like you did. It would’ve probably saved me
from a lot of heartache.” 1
m
Grabbing her hand, I squeeze it. “Well, it didn’t work out for me… One day, out of the blues, Emma showed up at my dorm room and kissed me. It was unexpected, but it was the best kiss I’ve ever received. I thought it was a dream when she asked me to make love to her, but it wasn’t she actually wanted me”
I still remember that day like it was yesterday. She had been a virgin, and even though I’d slept with countless girls, she had been by far the best. Probably because I had feelings for her.
“I went to sleep thinking that finally it happened. That, finally she had noticed and wanted to build something with me. Only I had been wrong. We woke up the next morning, and she was disgusted with. herself. I tried talking to her. I tried telling her that I still loved her, but she said she’d been using me to get
back at Rowan for sleeping with you”
That was the first time I found out that the girl Rowan slept with and knocked up
I
ip was Ava.
“You can’t imagine the pain that hit me. I felt crushed. I loved her with my body, only to find out that she didn’t feel a thing. That she was only using me. The betrayal I felt nearly destroyed me. We kept our
distance again, that is until she told me she was pregnant.”
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?
