Chapter 141

• Ava’s POV
• His words landed, and a hot, uncontrollable blush flooded my cheeks because it's been a year and nine months. And he's here.
• All those terrifying nights during my pregnancy, every prayer I'd whispered into the darkness had been for him to survive, to just live. And now that he had, now that he was standing in front of me, breathing and real, a cold, selfish thought took root in my heart: Go away. I had a new life now, a life I had built from the ashes for our daughter. A life he couldn't be a part of.