Chapter 106

Emma’s POV

How the call ended was a bit strange. I didn’t know why my mom had to cut it off.

As much as I wanted to dash to Mark’s, I wasn’t feeling up to it and I had started to feel gnawing pains in my belly. I concluded my mom was gonna be alright and left it at that.

When I called her, I wasn’t expecting to hear her say those things she said, but they sure were what I needed to hear, in retrospection.

Maybe it was better after all.

My raw maternal instincts were mourning the baby, but a baby wasn’t really what I needed.

And she was right about the other part too.

Chase and I were going to college in less than a month.

She said two letters came from different schools for him, it was a lot more than a punch in my gut that he applied to two schools, none of which I applied to.

I thought the plan was to be together. Apparently, I didn’t mean so much to him.

As I held my head in my hand, I cried to the God I don’t kno