Something wrong with me

Ava

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My brain cells were totally fried.

I’ve been sitting here since Calvin left about an hour ago. I asked him if Noah could stay the night

at his house today and he agreed.

I was still trying to grasp all that I learnt today. It was too much information all at once. I didn’t

know how to handle all of it.

My phone rings. For a second I think of ignoring, but decide against it. It might be an emergency.

I swipe the screen sightlessly. I put the gadget to my ear, but don’t say a thing. My mind was

completely blank so I wait for whoever was on the other side to speak.

“Ava” she breathes. “Thank God. Are you okay? Travis told me what happened today”

Immediately I recognize her voice. Letty.

“I’m not sure, honestly” I reply in a whisper.

I still didn’t understand how Emma could be so cruel to Calvin and Gunner. I know that she always

wanted to carry Rowan’s children, but to reject her own flesh and blood because he doesn’t have

Rowan’s DNA is downright malicious.

“Travis told me you’re the one that discovered the truth and exposed Emma’s lie”

Knowing how a parent’s rejection feels like, I completely understood Gunner’s pain. I took his pain

as my own because he r ded me so much of myself.

He didn’t choose Emma to be his mother, yet she hurt him as if he was nothing. That pissed me of

and broke my heart at the same time.

“Yes. It was just by coincidence I guess”

“How? How were you able to figure it out” she asks, her voice in disbelief.

I don’t know whether it’s from finding out that Emma has a son or it’s from her inability to

understand how I came by the truth.

“His smile” I breathe. “He’s smiled at me many times before, but there was this day it just hit me

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was young snapped in my head His smile was similar to hers

“Cal never said anything before?”

“Never but when I mentioned Emma’s name, he completely froze. That gave everything away.

Also the fact that he didn’t correct me”

It still seems so surreal. I can’t imagine my life without Noah so I don’t understand how Emma

was able to live like her son didn’t exist.

me everything” she insists and I proceed to tell her everything from how it started

got here.

crying once again. I didn’t

hard.

I was at Kate’s house” I

few months ago. “I felt so angry on his behalf and mine. I wanted to do something

for me when I was little and they treated me with cruel

to stand up for him and call Emma out on

I’d prayed for when I was growing up. Other

treated me, yet they said nothing. Hell, even Rowan’s parents

me or what was

suffer through how your

for exposing what

of me that felt like maybe I shouldn’t

could have handled it

but I was so angry that I couldn’t even think

I thought about as I drove is; Like mother, like daughter

my door, Letty. I have

and drained. Both emotionally

talk tomorrow. I know it

consider

I didn’t want to

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slowly use up and

you doing here?” I ask in

see him if I am being honest, I was expecting

that he in

I come in?” he

me because I step aside and

he enters

he asks while taking off

he’s not here. Today he’ll be

flash in his eyes at his name. For a moment

to calm down. I almost

turned out.” He

some massive changes in him recently, but today it’s just

cared. In fact he would have lashed out at

be possible that he

my head to push away those thoughts. I’m being

It’s not possible for him to have a change

while to consider what I just said. “Scratch

feel like

walks closer

feel his body heat. I feel him entirely.

place where I am

reason I am not. My mind was completely

had been thinking clearly, I would have

can I do to ease your pain? I know this must

concerns Gunner”

I’m shocked that he understands that not

of Gunner, but also because of

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look at his feet, but he cups my cheek and makes me

don’t know,

His fingers skimming over my cheek and neck. He then pushes a lock of my hair

in a way

I am his world, which is

you” he starts. “If I bend and take those pretty pink lips,

stare

I

no, Ava. Push

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