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She nods and twists her lips as she eyes the boxes. She’s right there. I can tell. It might just take a little, tiny nudge.
“Do you want it?” I ask.
She sighs. “It’s a lot of money. I’m not sure…”
“What did my girlfriend pay for it?” I ask. I’m hoping she tells me the truth, but it’s easy enough to look it up now that I know what it is.
“Ten thousand.”
Whoa.
She paid ten thousand dollars for this shit? What the fuck was she thinking?
I sigh. “You can have it all for five thousand.” I’ll pay the difference. I just want her to have her money back.
“Oh, wow. I…I don’t know what to say.”
“Say you’ll get this shit out of my truck.”
She laughs. “Okay.” She nods as she says the word. “Yes. Let’s do it.”
I suck in a deep breath. Mission fucking accomplished.
I just hope it’s enough for her to see that I’m making the types of sacrifices that she deserves.
Chapter 57: Ava Maxwell
Bring it On
I stay at the bakery until it closes, and then I stay a little longer.
If I head home now, I’m just going home to the empty house I used to share with Kelly. And it’s not just that.
I’m not okay.
I know telling him no was the right thing to do. I know walking away is what’s best for my heart. These are the things my brain keeps telling me.
My heart, however, is on a different page entirely. My heart thinks it’s all wrong, and today I’m sitting in that weird place of conflicting thoughts and feelings.
I hate it. I hate all of this, and I wish I’d never met him.
Sure, if I’d never met him, I would’ve missed out on the good stuff, but it was so short-lived that it feels like a blip in time that I’ll never get back again. Dwelling on it isn’t helping, so I throw myself into baking.
Only…it’s not helping the way it traditionally has.
I’m not just sad. I’m heartbroken. But I had to walk away. I had to do it on my own terms. I had to let him know that I won’t go back to how things were. I will wait to get everything I deserve, just like I told him I would.
When I get home, the kitchen light is on.
I didn’t leave the kitchen light on when I left this morning. In fact, I made sure I turned it off when I left, and since it was dark outside at the time, I nearly tripped over a chair on my way to the garage, and I had to turn on the flashlight on my phone to see where I was going.
Someone was in here, and when I spot a rather large sum of cash on the counter along with a note…well, I know who it was.
I read the note.
Ava-
I used the key you once gave me. Hope that’s okay. I want to be what you deserve, and you deserve not to be stressed out by mistakes of the past any longer.
