A Step Closer to Love

plimenting how wonderful Ava's cooking was. In fact, the smile on her face

n was the father of the Sterling family and he

t news" Serap

at the table. She always wondered why she had to eat with the old

Ara," Ava said w

he brought from the library. She slowly put her bookmark into the pages and dropped the book on th

to chat with but the only son of the Sterling family was Kieran and he was twenty years. A whole

he was not around those his age. She said that when he was still in h

Ava said excitedly

college this year," Everly said sm

o years off to purchase his dream in photography. He had never considered it what he wanted to do but

her hands going

ream but could not help but worry about him. They wanted him to go

ike a gasping fish. She wanted to say something

Richard said. He too was genuine

nto any schools?

t he applied to four Ivy's and got

about and feel proud of. A

ns," Ava said

ecause none of her daughters were yet up to the task of getting into Ivy's. Sh

-door boy were not friends and did not get along. He knew the hated the weekly dinners and tha

ey chorused together with a

said taking a s

he television in her parent's room. Arabella went back to read her book in her room and Kieran went to pack his bags for scho

er and she thought of how she would not see him again. It was not like she was going to miss him or anything but

f Kieran at the airport. The girls uninterested watched

or her household. Schools were resuming Monday which was the very from the summer bre

l library while Seraphina was glad to be bac

ly said putting th

aid," Everly said. Ava was on the other side of the l

verly said handing the phone over to the girl who was

her face was embedded in another book. She had finished the

call. She put the phone on loudsp

managed to say. Her chest

the emergency ward that her husband was brought in from

hospital to see him laying lifelessly. She spent some time wit

nd goodbye this morning. She was supposed to meet up with him af

lies and then have a date night with her husband.

sentence. She has to bear it. She needed to be strong but she did not want to be. She

a asked her mother alarmed wh

to bring you her

ng..." Serap

said stepping on the accelerator and driving towards t

that all was not well and the most scary thing w

one of those times