65 Heart to heart
“Ava can we please talk?” mother pleads when I move to leave.
1 stare at her, not sure what she wanted. What was there to talk about? Hasn’t everything already
been said and done?
“There isn’t anything for us to talk about, Mother” I insist.
Looking back, I see now how I made a distinction when it came to her and father. While Emma and Travis referred to them as mom and dad, to me they were Father and Mother. Clean, cut and
completely impersonal.
I never truly acknowledged them as my parents, because deep down I just knew. Parents don’t hate their children. Parents don’t neglect their child and treat them like shit. I made what I called them impersonal because on a spiritual level, I didn’t consider them my parents.
“Please, I beg you” she pleads with tears in her eyes.
It was so strange looking at her with tears in her eyes. Her face flushed and soft. This is a look I’ve never seen her direct at me. Her face was always in a frown. She always looked at me with a certain cold indifference that was specifically targeted at me.
“How about you show me to our table as they talk?” Martha, Rowan’s mom asks Corrine while
cutting off what I was about to say.
Corrine looks skeptical. Like she didn’t want to leave me. After all, it was known that the Sharp family weren’t my biggest fan even though I was apparently their daughter.
Martha doesn’t give Corrine a chance. Instead she links their hands and pulls her away in the
opposite direction.
I sigh and take my seat. “Let’s just get this over with, looks like you won’t leave me alone until
your piece, so do it now before I change my mind”
used to adore this woman back in my younger days. When I was around five or six.
I realized that she didn’t feel the
more of a
before taking my hands in hers. I pull them away.
I didn’t want her near me. The part of me that had longed for such
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than you’ll ever know” she whispers, folding
her apologizing to me, then pulling me into her arms. I used to crave it. Pray for it. Hope for the day to come. Now that it’s
loved me, loved us, but we gave you nothing but scorn. I
before continuing.
your value. Never acknowledged that you’re the best daughter anyone can have. It took almost losing you to realize how
was full on crying. If I was my old self, then her
meant absolutely nothing
few drops of tears. It just doesn’t work like that. It would heaven’s intervention inorder for that to
the crap okay? If this is about the threat my mother made on your company, we can discuss it as adults. There is no need for you to try and sweeten me up, that shit won’t work. Instead of all the drama, why don’t you tell me the real reason you wanted us to talk” I tell
emotionlessly.
her eyes, but I don’t care. She’s been hurting me for years. This was
she looked hurt. I was sure that the only reason
their family
think that the only reason I was apologizing was so I could save the company. Then again I have no one to
actions that you find me so
now, you couldn’t tell she was the same woman who
mistake. Who used to treat me like I didnt matter. It was so weird.
heart, so sitting here as she pours out her
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