27 Truths About Their First Goodbye (Firsts Series Book 4) by MJ Fields

Author:MJ Fields [Fields, MJ]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blue Valley Publishing, LLC.
Published: 2019-01-26T18:30:00+00:00

17

Luke

Hope was a little clingy when we left her with Mom, and it was hard as hell for Ava. Truth be told, it was for me, too.

She resembles her biological father, but she also looks a hell of a lot like my wife, acts like her, too.

I had to promise her everything under the sun in order for her to ease up a bit, so Ava didn’t lose her shit.

Fortunately for me, everything under the sun includes new safety scissors, a new butterfly garden, glitter, and some glue sticks. Soon enough it’ll be a car.

Chance, he just gave us a hug and a love you. Then he was off to find Uncle Jackson and Pops. I knew what he was after, so did Ava. He wanted to get his hands on the bin of Mega blocks to build something with them and then let Hope knock it down.

We left the truck with their car seats there in case they needed to go somewhere, and then, hand in hand walked across the same fucking trail I took year after year to her childhood home. But unlike years past, I wasn’t sneaking over for ‘one last time,’ and I had Faith’s carrier in my other hand.

“You’re smiling, and my heart is breaking because I’m leaving them.” Ava sighs.

“This path,” I shrug. “My one last time became my forever, Ava.”

She scrunches up her nose and shakes her head.

“What?” I squeeze her hand.

She looks down, still shaking her head. “My husband is—”

“A lucky man that you gave another chance to after he fucked up,” I admit.

She shields her eyes from the sun as she looks up at me. “Was it worth it?”

“Of course, it was.”

“Even though I was an idiot?”

“You explained you did what you did because you didn’t want me waiting for you in case you didn’t come home,” she stops. “Luke, are you trying to tell me—”

“That you don’t always know why someone you love does something that ends up hurting you. They may be doing it because they love you that much. And Ava, to know you is to love you.”

“You’re talking about Mom.”

“Blue eyes, I’m talking about everyone you have ever loved, or ever will. If they were worth loving once, they are worth giving a second chance. And that’s not just a gift to them, it’s for you, too. Had you not forgiven me, we wouldn’t have her. So, have faith in your heart, Ava, it will rarely steer you in the wrong direction.”

I look up and see Logan, London, Tessa, and Lucas walking out of the garage. She follows my line of vision.

“Ava,” I call, and she looks back at me. “And things left unsaid, don’t make them any more or less important than you allow them to be. You have me.”

She nods and smiles sadly as she looks back toward her family, our family.

“Everything’s going to be okay,” I whisper.

“How?” She swallows hard, and I know she’s barely keeping it together.

“You have to make it okay in your mind and in your heart.

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