Chapter Twenty One

Emily Collins.

Asher was making this harder than it already is for me, especially after dropping that he isn't a father— well he is, he just doesn't know that, yet. But god, he is seriously making it so damn hard, especially when he behaves like that.

As if his suddenly forgotten everything, my running away and disappearing for years, only to just now appear out of nowhere.

I know what he must be thinking right now.

He must expect everything to go back to that— it's not even right to call it normal because it was crazier than crazy but whatever it was, his expecting everything to be the same now that I'm back here in this horrible, dream crushing town.

It won't ever be the same though.

I knew that all, too, well.

A heavy sigh falls from my lips and I shake my head, trying to calm myself down but really, I feel anything but cal