#Chapter 57: Say Yes

“What do you mean?” I blurted out without thinking. “Ava, you know what I mean,” He gently scolded, a smile lifting the corner of his lips. “Say yes. Or say no, but answer.” I looked up at him. I wanted to say yes. I wanted to shout ‘obviously’ at him over and over again, but something stopped me. A little voice in the back of my head. We’re supposed to divorce in a year. How can anything come from that? How can we stay in the same house after that? I swallow the emotions that are building up in my mouth. Every word that my mind is begging me to tell him, gone and put away. “I’d love to,” I said to him softly. His eyes lit up with something - hope, maybe - but I squandered it. “But it could never work out, not after the divorce.” Ethan’s brows furrowed and he looked at me as though he was seeing me in a completely new light. “Maybe we don’t have to-” The oven beeped loudly before he could finish his sentence. I turned away from him, shrugging his hands off my shoulder