Female Novel
Chapter 352
Chapter 0352
| sigh in relief. Finally, | was able to prove that Emma isn’t as evil as others believed. My head was killing me, and | just wantedto sleep. o
“Are we done now?” | asked Brian. “Can | leave? And can she be released?”
“Yes. As for Emma, she'll have to wait a little bit in order for us to process her release papers, but you can leave. | can tell you’retired.”
He had no idea just how much he was right. | felt like my damn head was about to explode and leave tiny brain splatterseverywhere.
“Come, I'll take you to the hospital first.” Rowan rises up and gives me his hand. | am hesitant at first, but | place my hand in his.“| don’t want to go to the hospital, Rowan. | want to go home and rest.”
He was about to argue when Emma interrupted in a timid voice. It was so unlike her. The changes that she’d undergone keptsurprising. Emma isn’t the same girl who ran away from her heartbreak years ago. She also isn’t the same woman who cameback years later. This new version of her just seemed defeated and lost.
“Can | please talk to Ava privately?” She finally asks.
Rowan turns to me, and | nod my head. | was interested in knowing what she wanted to talk about. Let’s just say my curiosity gotthe better of me.
They walk out, and soon it’s just me and Emma. It feels kind of weird, given that we haven't exactly seen eye-to-eye since shecame back.
“| just wanted to thank you, Ava. You didn’t have to; you could have believed | was guilty just like everyone else, yet you didn’t. I’llalways be grateful for what you've done for me today. | know if it wasn’t for you, | would have probably gone to prison,” shefinally says after a while.
“It's nothing, Emma. | was just doing the right thing. You didn’t deserve to go to prison for something you didn’t do.”
“You don't get it; it’s not nothing,” she announces fiercely, standing up. “After everything I’ve done to you since | came back, youcould have hidden that information. You could have pretended like you didn’t know the truth. You could have kept quiet aboutyour discovery, yet you didn’t. So | thank you for that.”
| get what she was saying. If | were a malicious person, | would have done the same, but with my memory back comes theremembrance of that day she took a bullet for me. She didn’t have to, but she did anyway.novelbin
1/3Instead of arguing, | just nod my head. | guess we are now even.
“| also wanted to say I’m sorry.” Now that shocks me, stupid. | didn’t expect that.. “I’m sorry for everything | put you through sincecoming back. The threats, snide remarks, and being an overall bitch. | just hated you so much, but more than that, | was jealousof you. You had Rowan’s attention without even trying, while | had to struggle to keep it on me.”
“Emma...”>>
“No, Ava. It’s true. | behaved like a total bitch because | wasn’t Rowan’s center of attention. | should have realized that whateverwe shared was long dead. | should have let go the moment | realized that his heart no longer belonged to me, instead of taking itout on you.”"@
| squeeze her hand, and then she continues. “I know we'll never be best friends or anything like that, but | hope our enmity canend. | don’t want to keep hating you for something that happened a decade ago. I’m tired of carrying that burden.”
| search for the place where my bitterness towards Emma used to be, but it’s completely empty. | no longer hate her or feeljealous of her. I’m at peace.
completely empty. | no longer ha“And I’m sorry, Emma.” | tell her sincerely. “I never should have slept with your boyfriend.”
“| was immature, and | loved Rowan so much | could barely see straight. | shouldn’t have let my obsession go that far. | wasdrunk that night when it happened, but that’s no excuse. I’m really sorry; | know you probably won't believe it, but | never meantto hurt you.”
This time, she falls into my arms and hugs me, crying. | can’t stop myself when my tears start pouring. After a while, we pullaway from each other.
“That’s all | ever wanted to hear you say,” she tells me, trying to master a smile.
“I'm sorry it took so long” | chuckle- cry “But you didn’t make it easy for me when you ran from this city for ten years, and whenyou came back, you were a complete bitch.”
She laughs, and this time it’s genuine. For a while, it’s like she’s forgotten her problems.“Thank you, Ava.”
“Hey, you saved my life and that of Iris... I'll always owe you for that.” | smile and
Unable to hold it in, | yawn. | was so freaking tired.
“| should let you go; you look pretty tired,” she says, standing up.
| stared at her for a while before saying anything. “Have faith, Emma, and stay strong. Everything will eventually work out.”She nods her head, and | stand up. | open the door and leave, feeling a little lighter than when | came in.
“You're ready to go,” Rowan falls into step next to me.
“Yes”
“Ill drive you.”
“I'll drive myself, Rowan. Besides, I’m not going to your house; I’m going to mine,” | inform him. “I'll be by to pick up Iris and Noahlater.”
“Please, Ava.” He begs, his unshed tears grinding my heart into minced meat. ” Don’t leave, please.”“I need time, Rowan,” | breathe out. “I need to think. | can’t do that with you around me.”| don’t wait for him to say anything. | climb into my car, tears running down my face.
| never stopped loving Rowan, even when | pretended | did, but now | needed to make a decision. Can | truly forgive him, let goof the past, and move on with him? Or is it better to leave him and the past where they belong?