Chapter 0234
I see him swallow, before his eyes focus on me.
“It’s Ava” he finally says.
I’m about to ask him what’s wrong with Ava when an unrecognizable voice mentions her name. I begin to
turn in the direction of the TV.
“Please, Rowan…don’t watch it, focus on me” My brother begs me, but I don’t pay attention to him.
I needed to know what the hell the reporters have to say about Ava.
BREAKING NEWS.
The headlines written in big, bold letters.
“News just in, Member of the Sharp family and founder of The Hope Foundation was today gunned down
by unknown people. We are yet to know the state she’s in, but the gunman opened fire to what seems to
be a hit targeted at her. The video you’re about to watch maybe disturbing to some”
I feel my knees weaken, but nothing could have prepared me to watching the woman I love being shot
multiple times.
The video showed Ava as she was walking out of an ice cream shop. Her eyes were downcast and she had a small frown on her face. Whoever took the video captured a black SUV with tinted windows speed in her direction. Just before the drove past her, a masked person, rolled the window down just enough to fit the gun, before shooting several times. They sped past her, leaving Ava to crumble on the ground in a pool of blood
The video ends, and the presenter comes back on.
“We are yet to establish why these gangsters would shoot a pregnant woman, but stay tuned as we try to find out.”
She proceeds to talk about the damage to the shop and how two other people were injured, but that doesn’t concern me. My focus was Ava. I couldn’t erase the image of her body lying motionless in a pool of her own blood from my mind.
“Rowan?” I hear his voice but it doesn’t registers.
Nothing fucking registers in my head. I felt so fucking broken. I felt lost. My heart was fractured to tiny pieces. How am I supposed to survive if something happens to her?
“Ro…”
His hand on my shoulder makes me jump into action.
“I need to go to her..I need to see her” I struggle to say against the waves of emotions that were choking
- me.
I don’t wait to hear what he says, before I am out of my office door. I rush down the corridor towards my private elevator. My employees stare at me in confusion. I probably looked like a deranged person, but ! don’t give a damn.
Jumping to the elevator, I key it in for the underground parking. My need to see her intensified with every
bit of my heart.
I got underground and immediately rushed to the reserved parking space. My car was there and so was
Gabe’s.
I struggled to unlock the doors. My hands were shaking and I couldn’t stop the tremble no matter what.
The keys fell out of my grip, frustrating me even further.
“Fuck” I yell, kicking the tire in anger, fear and frustration.
Bending down, I pick the keys and manage to unlock the doors. I had my hand on the handle, about to
open it when a hand stopped me.
I turn around pissed off, about to lash out when his voice stops.
“I’m not about to let you fucking drive while you’re in this state” he says before pushing forward his hand. Give me the keys, I’ll take you to the hospital.”
I deflate and hand him the keys. He was right. I wasn’t in the right mental state to drive anywhere. The last thing Noah needed is to have both parents in the hospital.
I get in and Gabe starts the car, all the while praying that Ava was okay because I don’t how I’ll survive if 1 were to lose her.
Today’s Bonus Offer
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?
