Chapter 0225
All the hope I had shrivels up and dies. Hell. Will I ever get a chance to make things right? Is it even
possible to win her back?
“I doubt that’s the only thing. We both know Ava. If she didn’t want it, she wouldn’t have let you. Hormones be damned,” he tries to encourage me, but I’m not really feeling it right now.
My door opens, and Travis enters. He looks like hell. He crosses over and takes a seat next to Gabe.
“You look like shit” Gabe informs him.
Travis just sighs. “I know. I feel like it too.”
Things are a fucking mess after finding out that his precious sister has a child whom she has kept a
secret for eight years.
“How are things?” I ask.
“Bad. I can’t stand being in the same room as Emma right now. Mom too. In fact, she gave Emma an ultimatum. Either she builds a relationship with Gunner or she cuts her off from her life.”
Both Gabe and I stare at him in shock. Never have I ever imagined that Kate would threaten to disown
Emma.
Even when Ava and I messed up, she never disowned her. Sure, she and James gave her the cold
shoulder, but they never cut her off.
“Are you serious?” Gabe speaks.
“As serious as a heart attack,” he mutters before taking a deep breath. “Anyway, I don’t want to talk about
that, let alone think about it. What were you talking about before I came in?” he asks, changing the subject.
“Ava” Gabe answers.
“What about Ava?”
He has the tortured look he usually wears every time Ava is mentioned. I know he now feels even worse
after how he talked to her that day.
“I think that Rowari may have a chance of winning her.” Gabe answers.
Travis looks confused. It’s then that I realize he has no idea about my feelings towards Ava.
“Why? Are you pursuing her?” He looks puzzled, Like he’s trying to piece things together.
“Yes,” I growl. “You have a problem with that?”
“No,” he sighs. I’m guessing you have feelings for her, right? That’s okay. She deserves to be happy and
we all know that you were her dream.”
“You’re not angry with him?” Gabe looks at me before looking at Travis.
I wanted to hear his answer. Not that it mattered. Even if he were pissed, it wouldn’t have changed a thing. If getting Ava means losing his friendship, then so be it.
“Why would I be angry?”
“Well, because of Emma. You were the biggest supporter of their relationship.”
“Yes, that’s before I realized that he may not love her anymore. When Emma came back, he acted
differently. It was like the spark between them had died. It was pretty easy to see it, though he was
fighting it. His actions just spoke louder than his words.” He pauses, then continues.
“It’s time we all let go of the past. All three of them–four if we count Calvin–have been suffering because
of the love Rowan and Emma had when they were young. I see what neither of us saw back then. That young love wasn’t meant to be. Sooner or later. One way or another, it would have died. My advice for you, my friend, is to seize the present. I’ve learned that life is unpredictable and you never know what time you have left with your loved ones.”
I’m quiet as I listen to him. There was an air of foreboding that filled the room at his words. I feel the chill
all the way down to my bones.
“When did you get so wise?” I chuckle as I try to clear the heavy atmosphere.
They both chuckle, but it’s forced. I know they can both feel it in the air.
I don’t know what it is, but I had this premonition that something bad would fucking happen.
Travis was right. I wasn’t going to waste time because you never fucking know.
I’m going to go on this trip and the moment I get back, I’m going to tell Ava the truth. It was time I confessed my feelings for her.
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?
