Chapter 99

AVA

I sat in the living room with Isabella and Amelia, feeling a strange weight in the air. It had been a few days since I came back to my father’s house after everything with Liam. The ache in my chest hadn’t dulled. I tried so hard to be strong but every now and then, I found myself slipping into my thoughts. How could I be strong, when everything else had fallen apart so quickly?

Liam hadn’t contacted me, not for a single day.

I was beyond heartbroken. I sat still, staring at the blank open space of the ceiling when the silence in the room was punctuated by the sound of the front door slamming open.

I flinched, my eyes darting toward the entrance as a man I didn’t recognize barged in, his eyes blazing with fury. He looked disheveled, like he had been running or pacing for hours before deciding to storm in here.

Cynthia walked into the living room at that moment, her face drained of all color the moment she saw him. She looked like she had seen a ghost. “Why would you barge i