Chapter 0218
Ava
My brain cells were totally fried.
I’ve been sitting here since Calvin left about an hour ago. I asked him if Noah could stay the night at his
house today and he agreed.
I was still trying to grasp all that I learnt today. It was too much information all at once. I didn’t know how
to handle all of it.
My phone rings. For a second I think of ignoring, but decide against it. It might be an emergency.
I swipe the screen sightlessly. I put the gadget to my ear, but don’t say a thing. My mind was completely
blank so I wait for whoever was on the other side to speak.
“Ava” she breathes. “Thank God. Are you okay? Travis told me what happened today”
Immediately I recognize her voice. Letty.
“I’m not sure, honestly” I reply in a whisper.
I still didn’t understand how Emma could be so cruel to Calvin and Gunner. I know that she always
wanted to carry Rowan’s children, but to reject her own flesh and blood because he doesn’t have Rowan’s
DNA is downright malicious.
Travis told me you’re the one that discovered the truth and exposed Emma’s
lie”
Knowing how a parent’s rejection feels like, I completely understood Gunner’s pain. I took his pain a
own because he reminded me so much of myself. 1
as my
He didn’t choose Emma to be his mother, yet she hurt him as if he was nothing. That pissed me of and
broke my heart at the same time.
“Yes. It was just by coincidence I guess
How? How were you able to figure it out” she asks, her voice in disbelief.
I don’t know whether it’s from finding out that Emma has a son or It’s from her inability to understand
how I came by the truth.
alle breathe. “He’s smiled at me many times before, but there was this day it just hit me hand, helend me for days because it looked so familiar. Then today Emma’s Images
head His smile was similar to hers
“Cal never said anything before?”
“Never, but when I mentioned Emma’s name, he completely froze. That gave everything away. Also the
fact that he didn’t correct me”
It still seems so surreal. I can’t imagine my life without Noah so I don’t understand how Emma was able
to live like her son didn’t exist.
“Tell me everything” she insists and I proceed to tell her everything from how it started to how we got
here.
By the time I am done, I’m crying once again. I didn’t want to project my pain, but it was really hard.
“I didn’t know where I was going until I was at Kate’s house” I tell her. I had stopped calling her mother a few months ago. “I felt so angry on his behalf and mine. I wanted to do something for him. Something no one did for me when I was little and they treated me with cruel disdain. I wanted to stand up for him and
call Emma out on her behavior”
It was something I’d prayed for when I was growing up. Other parents noticed how Kate and James
treated me, yet they said nothing. Hell, even Rowan’s parents kept quiet and followed their friends‘ lead.
No one stood up for me or what was right. So I decided to do it for Gunner.
“I understand you babe. No child should suffer through how your Kate and James treated you or how
Emma treated Gunner. You were right for exposing what a bitch she is
I felt so relieved. There was this part of me that felt like maybe I shouldn’t have done it. Like I could have
handled it better, but I was so angry that I couldn’t even think straight. I couldn’t help it. All I thought
about as I drove is; Like mother, like daughter
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?
