Threats
I was shopping for furniture, but my mind wasn’t in it. I bought a new house. It was perfect for me

and it suited my style. Simple yet cozy. It was in a great neighborhood and was even closer to

Noah’s school. I loved it the moment I saw it. It also had a big backyard where Noah could play

unlike our previous house.

“Are you even paying attention?” Letty asks in annoyance.

She was helping me pick furniture my new home. It has been three days since I bought it and yet

it was sitting completely empty. I didn’t even have a bed for heaven’s sake. I’ve been sleeping on a

make shift bed on the floor.

“I’m sorry, Letty…I just have too much on my mind” I apologize.

When you have someone trying to kill you, most other things usually take a back seat. They don’t

seem as important as trying to stay a live long enough to see you child grow up.

I still get chills knowing that I was close to dying. Again. That someone deliberately set a fire to

my house. That they wanted me burned alive. What kind of a sick person does that?

Plus it can’t be a coincidence that the day of the dinner party someone chased me. Only to have

my house burned down the next day. 1

“Is it because of your house?” her voice is full of sympathy.

I clench my hands in fist. “Yes! And not only that, it’s everything. It just makes me so angry. Four

times, Letty! They’ve tried killing me four times and from what I see they don’t plan on stopping

until i’m dead. I just want to be left the fuck alone” I take a deep breath.

The people around as stare at us at my outburst, but I don’t give a shit about the scathing looks.

I sometimes felt so lost. I can’t bring my son back home even though I miss, because I don’t want

to put him in any danger. I haven’t held or kissed my baby boy in weeks.

“What terrifies me is what if they succeed? I haven’t see Noah in three months, Letty. Seeing him

on video calls isn’t the same as holding him in my arms. What if they succeed and I never get to

see or hold him again?” I ask, fighting the tears that threatened to fall.

“Uh…I don’t know what to say” she looks at me awkwardly

“You’re really not good at pep–talks are you?” I ask chuckling, wiping away my tears

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“Hell No!” She all but shouts then sighs “I don’t know what you’re feeling but I get you. I know

how frustrating this must be for you, but don’t let them get to you, cause the moment they do, you

give them power over you”

I think for a second about what little she’s told me. She was right. I can’t lose it right now. Who

knows? Maybe that is what they’re counting on. Making me lose it, so that I can be careless and

make a mistake.

“Thank you, Letty” I give her a side hug.

Her pep–talk however small, is exactly what I needed.

“Good. Now, have you gotten everything you need?” she asks. “We’ve been at this for hours and I’m

starving”

“Yeah…we can go get something to eat. Let me pay and then I’ll came back and rive the U–Haul

back to my place”

“You do realize you can just hire them to deliver the furniture right? They’ll even help you moving

do it by yourself” she

but I don’t like strangers in my space. Beside, I’m just driving it. Ethan will

help move the

a bit before shrugging her shoulders. We head to the cashier and I pay for the

we’ve chosen.

were restaurants and eateries near the furniture store so

fast and greasy?” I ask her already feeling my stomach

fast and greasy…is that something you even

I grin at her.

soon enough, we are settled. Our

thing.

anything important. We joke, we eat and have

each other’s company. For a moment, I forget about

think straight” Letty says,

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this satisfied look in her eyes and

look like you just had an orgasm”

“I did, I had

tell her that there is nothing like that. Food and orgasms shouldn’t be used in the

sentence.

brings pleasure and even if it’s not the same as the pleasure I get when

you ever had

to hear what

“Oops” she says sheepishly.

to hear about their brother having

described.

and I check the

I want to be there when he

place”

out too. My feet

pay our bills

your

“Anytime, Ava”

I walk the short distance to

late. Mainly

by the time he

her annoying voice makes me

at the parking lot. She was staring at me like

murder.

want her kind of drama so I turn

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bitterness and

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back around

like a damn statue

ask

me! Are you happy now that Rowan

was your plan all along wasn’t

but I never

break things off. He loved her after

think I would be happy about that when

emotionlessly

drawing the

controlling your

she thinks I had something to do with

her and her man”

sister,

long time, Travis.

me that yourself”

the pain, but it

short lived when Emma takes a

think you’ve won then you’re wrong Ava. Rowan is mine and I’ll

from me. I am not going to let you win. This time I will fight you to the

she spits.

back and raise my hand. “Whoa, first of all,

Second of all, there will be no fighting to the death. If you want him

fuck him, and give him a whole lot

it in your fucking head that

getting tired of repeating the same thing over and over again. Why was

no

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