Chapter 0280

I’m seated in the living room, going over some words and numbers. If I ever want to go back to teaching.

then I need to relearn words and numbers

Iris was sleeping in a portable crib that I dragged from upstairs. I didn’t like the idea of leaving her in her room all by herself all the time. So here we are. She was just chilling while I basically studied all over

again.

My head was still reeling from everything I’d learned yesterday about Ethan. I still can’t believe that he played me in such a cruel manner. That I hadn’t suspected a thing during the months he and I were

together.

I don’t know what pushed me into his arms in the first place. Was it because Emma came back and I wanted Rowan to see that his relationship with her didn’t affect me? Or was it because I’d been so desperate and starved of affection that I’d fallen for the first man who showed interest in me?

It frustrated me that I didn’t know what had been going on in my mind when it all happened or what drove me. Unless I get my memory back, then I’ll always wonder what motivated my actions.

My phone rings, pulling me from my thoughts.

I pick it up, but unfortunately, I can’t read the number that was flashing on the screen. So far, the only numbers that were programmed on the phone were Rowan’s, the driver’s, my bodyguards, and Noah’s

school office.

After a second of debating whether to pick it, I tap on the green answering icon.

“Hello?” I ask tentatively..

I don’t recognize

“Who’s this?”

the phone, making me feel terrible. It

to hurt their feelings.

“It’s your mother,

seen her since we left the hospital. Rowan had

the idea before they

the one who told him was adopted by Kate and James. I then introduced him to Nora and Theo. Still, I was having a hard

awkwardly. I honestly didn’t

didn’t know whose number it was, and I didn’t recognize your

“It’s okay, I totally

Rowan give you

today he’d gone to work reluctantly. If it weren’t for the fact that he had an important meeting, he would have stayed. He did promise to

you don’t

few hours I was with her at the hospital, she seemed like a really sweet woman. I’d wanted Rowan to tell me about their story. How it is, I ended up as Kate and James daughter. He told me that it wasn’t his story to tell and

man. I mean, who does. that? Who the hell seduces and sleeps with the woman he’s hell–bent on killing?

around that particular

I miss you, Ava. You’re my daughter

her voice is clear as day. Witnessing

honestly explain inside me.

mother, I feel for her. It would destroy me if any of my children

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