Chapter 0500
Emma
I walk into Mia's office for yet another therapy session. Just like we always do, I first take off my shoes before sitting down.
"Hi Emma," Mia asks, smiling at me. Her smile, just like always, is inviting and warm. It makes you calm and relaxed.
"Hi Mia"
"Okay, you know what we have to do first, right?"
She asks and I nod my head.
I take a deep breath before closing my eyes. I sort through my thoughts. I don't hold onto them for long or dwell on them. Instead, I let them go without trying to dive into them.
I push out the thoughts about Calvin, Gunner, my brother, mom and Ava. I clear my head until there is nothing. Until my head is empty and I am at peace.
Once that's done, I open my eyes.
"Are you ready for us to begin?" Mia, who was watching me, asks.
I nod "Yes."
the last time, you told me you are ready to get your life back together.
question bounce in my head
"I got in contact with my previous firm. They have a branch here in the city and they
It's been two years since I had a mental breakdown because of guilt and out of nowhere, I quit my job. I never expected that they'd take me back, given that I didn't give
my senior got excited at hearing me. She immediately accepted my request, even after I told her that I wasn't
get your life back?" Her question pulls me back to the
reason I am doing all this.
"What about him?"
a mess now, can I?" I give her a sheepish smile. "I quit my job and moved
something in her note
are saying, but I am worried that you are using Gunner and Calvin as a bandaid. I am afraid that
this way about me and about my intentions to mend things
words come out of my mouth. It opens and closes, but nothing. I lack the words to express what I feel at the
was my intention. Gunner may be too young to understand everything but if that's what I am thinking,
the tables were turned, I would have thought the same thing. Calvin and Ava are friends so he knows that she and Rowan are together. He knows Rowan chose Ava. What's to stop him from thinking that the reason I am now begging for forgiveness is because Rowan didn't want me? I've was hang up on him for years, what's to stop Calvin from thinking that my change of heart is because I was rejected
Mia. I am not doing this because I am settling but because I genuinely want forgiveness and a chance at redemption. I want to be in
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