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

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. That

she didn’t feel the same

as if I was more of a burden, than a

hands in hers. I pull them away. Not wanting

want her near me. The part of me that

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sorry, Ava More than you’ll ever know” she whispers,

I used to crave it. Pray for it.

away. You loved me, loved us, but we gave you nothing but scorn. I wish more than anything that I could go back in time

before continuing.

your value. Never acknowledged that you’re the best daughter anyone can

If I was my old self, then her

tears meant absolutely

of hurting. It can’t be erased by a few drops of tears. It just doesn’t work like that. It would heaven’s intervention inorder for that

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

emotionlessly.

been hurting me for years. This was nothing

was sure that the only reason she was here was

their

would think that of me. That you would think that the only reason I was apologizing was so I could save the company. Then

actions that you find me

the same

used to treat me like I didnt matter. It was so weird. We’ve never had

heart, so sitting here as she pours

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