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."
ready to get your life
focus on her and let her question bounce in
finally say, "I got in contact with my previous firm. They have a
two years since I had a mental breakdown because of guilt and out of nowhere, I quit my job. I
I expected them to turn me away and tell me to fuck off. I was surprised when my senior got excited at hearing me. She immediately accepted my request, even after I told her that I wasn't coming back to the city I'd called
to get your life back?" Her
have to think about it. Gunner is the reason I am doing all this. He is the reason why I sought therapy to heal
"What about him?"
I give her a sheepish smile. "I quit my job and moved with my mum while I was basically wasting away
something in her note book before
are saying, but I am worried that you are using Gunner and Calvin as a bandaid. I am afraid that
and hurt that she would think this way about me and about my intentions to mend things with Calvin
quiet as I just stare at her. No words come out of my mouth. It opens and closes, but nothing. I lack the words
was my intention. Gunner may be too young to understand everything but if that's what I am thinking, then that's what Calvin will think too. Are you sure that you haven't settled for them
inside me. Now that she put it that way, I understand. Hell, if 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
want forgiveness and a chance at redemption. I want to be in Gunner and Calvin's life."
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