Rowan.
“How is she doing, Rowan?” Kate, Ava’s mother asks.
The concern in her voice is genuine. You can hear how hard she’s trying to stop herself from
crying. It’s been a very hard couple of days and I still can’t over how we almost lost Ava
“She woke up yesterday for a few minutes before going back to sleep and before you start
worrying, the doctor said it’s normal for patients with head injuries”
I hear her sigh with relief. Kate has been different since the death of her husband She wants to
get close to Ava only now Ava has decided she doesn’t want anything to do with her family. In fact
she doesn’t want anything to do with all of us.
“Will she be okay? Will she make a full recovery?”
“Yes, the doctors are confident, but they’re not sure if she will be completely okay. It’s still too
early to tell but they say with this type of head injury there might be complications”
That was one of the things I was fucking afraid of. In all honest I just wanted her to be okay.
“Don’t worry though, Ava is strong I’m sure she’ll pull through. I got to go but I’ll call when she
wakes up, the last time she did, she was asking about Noah”
“Okay, Rowan, please keep me informed and make sure she’s getting the best treatment”
“I will”
I hang up after that and watch her. She looks so peaceful and beautiful. Why have I never noticed
how flawless her complexion is? Or how naturally long her eye lashes are? Or how full and red her
lips are
‘Because you never wanted to, you were so focused on hating and blaming her that you never
noticed anything good about her‘ my inner voice whispers. *
I sigh because I know that it’s the truth. I never wanted her so I went to great lengths to block her
out and it had worked until now. This new version of Ava demands attention. Demands to be
noticed.
I take her hand in mine. It’s so small and so soft. I’ve been doing this a lot. Rubbing her wrist and
feeling her pulse just to assure myself that she was still alive. That that bombing had not taken
her from us
Whenever I think of that Sunday, my heart squeezes and I feel like I’m fucking dying. I had called
her to warn her to stay away from Emma. Emma had come to me crying. She told me that Ava had
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to lay it on her.
The
moment I heard the booming sound and people screaming my breath hitched. I’d been left calling Ava’s name over the phone in panic.
My heart stopped when someone called me and told me that Ava’s car had been bombed and that she was badly hurt. I can’t explain how I fucking felt but I know that it went beyond fear, beyond anguish. Something that I didn’t understand.
I shake myself from those thoughts and look at her room.
Some of the things her visitors brought had to be taken to her house because they couldn’t fit here. Most of them were from her students. Those kids adored Ava, no one needed to be told twice. They visited her in groups each day and called her nurse to check up on her.
I never cared for her work. Thinking that she was probably a failure but seeing her students lavish her with love changed my perspective. They wouldn’t do all that if she wasn’t a great teacher. Her colleagues also had nothing but praise for her, which just made me realize how much of her life I didn’t know. 7
“Rowan” her soft voice pulls me from my thoughts.
I turn to look at Emma. Standing next to her is Travis. Unlike Emma, he looked like hell.
“Has she woken up?” Travis asks. His voice soft.
The whole thing had shaken him. Not only him but everyone. He came close to losing his sister and I guess it’s finally starting to sink in.
“No” I reply.
“You need to go home, Rowan” Emma says, “Go take a shower and change clothes then you can come back. You look like a zombie”
“I’m not leaving, Emma” I argue.
I couldn’t fucking leave. What if something happened and I wasn’t around?
“You’re no good to her or anyone if you fall down in exhaustion…just go home, I’m sure it won’t take long for you to look presentable” Emma argues,
Travis looks at me and chips in “Emma is right, Rowan, I promise we won’t leave her even for a
second”
I look at Ava She was still asleep and it didn’t seem like she would wake up anytime soon. Maybe I could go get a quick shower and then rush back.
“Okay then, but don’t leave her side” I snarl
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She was attacked so who knew if those criminals would try to come back and finish the job.
Travis nods, his eyes on Ava. Emma just looks at me with her piercing blue eyes.
I stand up about to leave when Emma grabs my forearm and stops me.
“She’ll be okay…Ava is too stubborn to surrender to death” she says with her smile before pecking my lips. 1
I nod and leave. This is the first time that has happened. Since we decided to try again it’s been pecks on the cheek, chin and forehead. Her lips on mine is a first and even though I’ve dreamed about this for nine years I can’t help but feel that it’s wrong.
Her lips are wrong, the feel of them is wrong and the kiss itself is fucking wrong. Why the fuck
would I be feeling this when Emma is the woman I’ve been craving for nearly a decade?
I get to my house and take the quickest shower known to man. I was dressing when I received a text from Travis letting me know that Ava had still not woken up yet. Since I was feeling tired, I
decide to take a power nap. I haven’t slept in days.
I wake up with a start. Shit! I was supposed to sleep for thirty minutes and according to the time
on my phone, I slept for three hours.
I put on my shoes and rush out after reading a message from Travis. Ava woke up about an hour
“What do you mean ‘she kicked you out”
but to demand we leave” Travis spoke.
“Yes, Ethan came a few minutes after we were kicked out. He hasn’t left her side since then”
I feel my face harden and jaw lock. That fucking bastard, what the hell was he doing here?
happened? 2
I ball my fist. The need to wrench her hand from his almost consuming. Shouldn’t I be happy that
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