Chapter 0223
The thought of that brings a certain kind of panic inside me. I didn’t want to think of that. I didn’t want to let go of my dream of being with Rowan. I stay quiet as I fight her words in my head.
“Emma?” she calls.
I know her; she wants me to agree. She wants me to tell her that I’ll think about it, but I don’t want to.
I’m saved from answering her when a knock sounds on my door.
have to go, Molly. There is someone at the door” I tell her in a hurry as I walk towards said door.
“Don’t think I don’t know what you’re doing, Em. This…”
I hang up the phone before she can finish her sentence.
Opening the door, I’m surprised to find mom on the other side. She wasn’t smiling, but hope still bubbles
inside me.
She doesn’t wait for an invitation, she just walks in.
“I’m going to make this short,” she says, and all the hope that I had a moment ago shrinks and dies.
I close the door and face her. Looking at her, I fight my tears when I notice the angry fire dancing behind her eyes.
“I want to meet my grandson. I expect you to properly introduce him to me,” she begins. “You’re also going to acknowledge him as your son and part of the Sharp family. You’re going to establish a bond with him, get to know him, and you’re going to include him in your life. Am I understood?”
I stare at her wide–eyed. She couldn’t be serious, right? Was she really going to force me to get to know him?
“You can’t be serious, Mom. I don’t want to know him!” I shout, appalled by the idea.
I’ve regretted him since I learned I was pregnant, so how could I turn around and try and build a life with him?
The flicker of fire I had seen in mom’s eyes turns into a blazing inferno. She raises her hand, and I react too slowly. The smack on my face leaves me confused for a while. Still not able to understand what just happened.
place a hand on my cheek and look at her in disbelief. She has never slapped me before. Never.
“You listen to me and listen well; I’m going to give you one chance to fix things with your son and the man you cruelly used and discarded, or I swear to you, Emma, I will disown you. Mark my words. You continue down the path you’re walking, and I’ll consider you dead to me.” She pauses, before continuing.
“I know my behavior towards your sister may have contributed to your reasoning. It was wrong of me to ignore her and treat her like she didn’t exist. I regret it every day and I won’t let you make the same
mistake. Fix what you’ve broken”
She doesn’t give me a chance to say anything before she walks past me, opens the door and leaves. I’m
left standing staring at the spot she stood a few minutes ago.
The ultimatum she gave me keeps playing in my head. Either get to know Gunner or lose my family. I
know my mother and she doesn’t give out empty threats. I no longer had a choice.
Why did Ava have to find out the truth?
My heart hardens as I think of her, and fury fills me.
I
Fuck. I hate that bitch. She should have just kept her fucking mouth shut.
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?
