Chapter 269

as hell. Honestly, I salute all the single mothers out there. Being a single parent isn’t easy at all. collapse on the couch, feeling drained. It had been a busy morning. With having to do all the chores and everything. Gunner helped, but I had to take him to football practice today.

He didn’t want to go, and he was pretty clear on that. It’s not that I was forcing him into a sport he didn’t like; It’s just that he knew that Noah wouldn’t be present like he usually is.

I made him understand why. Ava woke up, so of course Noah would want to be around her. I’m sure it will be like that for a while. He’ll stop being clingy after being assured that Ava isn’t going anywhere.

Gunner finally understood, and he accepted to go only if I promised that we would make arrangements to visit her soon.

He was bummed out when he learned that Ava, Noah, and Iris wouldn’t be returning to their house next to

ours.

My mind drifts to Ava. I feel fucking horrible that the last time we talked, I walked out on her all because I felt a sting after she rejected me. Thinking about it now, I get where she was coming from. After what Rowan did to her, it would have been stupid to enter into a relationship with yet another man who was in love with Emma.

I was still in love with Emma, even though she has broken my heart more times than I could count. You just don’t get over more than a decade of love. I was looking for someone to ease the pain. A rebound…and we all know that

friend. She embraced me because she fucking understood my pain. She understood

I became like most other people in her life. I pushed

she doesn’t remember me, and

I was hungry, but honestly, I felt too

should order takeout. It would be easier, and I wouldn’t

ordering when

1/2

couldn’t be

+15 BONUS

I don’t really have a lot of friends because I prefer solitude, so I wonder who

Fat the door.

and wrench it open. My heart stops when

Emme

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