Finding the Love Back Read Online Free
Author: Adina Jan
down the highway. She had at least another three hours to go until she made it to Conner. She turned up the music again because she didn’t want to sit and think anymore too deeply. She would just have to deal with what was to come when she got to Conner.
After stopping a few times to walk Dolce and to get her obligatory morning coffee, Ava arrived in Conner a little after ten in the morning. The familiarity of a town that she once knew stared her in the face. A sense of being home enveloped her, but she still felt like an outsider.
Not much had changed since she left. Of course there was a Walmart now on Main Street and there was a Dollar Store on the main road, but everything still looked the same. Conner looked like a town right out of a movie. City Hall sat in the middle of town with a sprawling fountain in the front and there were not too many stop lights on the streets. It was more of a four way stop sign type of town.
There was only one high school and there was one highway that brought you in and out of town. Most of the residents had lived there their entire lives and their families had been there for generations. The sheriff still ate at Mattie’s Diner and Mattie’s family still owned the diner. Mattie was too old to stay on her feet all day, so she took to greeting customers and continuing to be the friendly face that everyone expected to see when they came to the diner to get a bite to eat.
Ava couldn’t help but smile as she drove down Main Street. She was home and she couldn’t deny that it felt good. As she sat at one of the only stop lights in town, she looked over to her right as a pick-up truck pulled up alongside of her. He stared at Ava while she sat in her red E550 Benz wearing Gucci shades. She knew that no one would readily recognize her because she had colored her brunette hair to blonde several years ago. Dolce stood up in the seat at the window and started barking.
“Dolce! Sit!” Ava calmed Dolce down and gave a polite smile and wave at the older gentleman in the truck. He nodded and tipped his hat, still wearing a scowl on his face. Ava knew not many people in Conner drove luxury cars. Not that there weren’t people that lived there that couldn’t afford it, but it just wasn’t that type of place. People didn’t have to drive around in expensive cars to impress anyone because no one was impressed by wealth and status much in Conner. The Conner family, for which the town was named, was a family that owned much of the land in the area. The family still owned a dairy farm and they were very well respected. Other than the Conner clan, there were a few families that had old money like the Beiderman family and the Carters.
A chill went up Ava’s spine because she hadn’t thought of the Carter family in ages. Those memories had been buried a long time ago. She hadn’t thought of Christian Carter since the last time she’d seen him when he came to Atlanta to visit her a few years after she left Conner. Ava swallowed the lump in her throat because she didn’t want to think about Christian right now. Christian had made it clear years ago where the two of them stood and he hadn’t hesitated to walk away from her so as far as she was concerned, he wasn’t deserving of the energy she had to put forth thinking of him. She had enough to deal with having to go the hospital to see about her father. The last thing Ava needed right now was a trip back down memory lane thinking of Christian.
Chapter 5
When Ava pulled up to her childhood home, it somehow looked smaller than she remembered. It had once been her entire world. As she got out of the car, she waved to her neighbor Ms. Stanton who was outside watering her lawn in the early morning.
Ms. Stanton paused before waving. “Well now, Ava Marie. It’s good to see you.” Ms. Stanton turned off the water hose and approached her. Dolce jumped out of the car and danced around in the front yard, only
After stopping a few times to walk Dolce and to get her obligatory morning coffee, Ava arrived in Conner a little after ten in the morning. The familiarity of a town that she once knew stared her in the face. A sense of being home enveloped her, but she still felt like an outsider.
Not much had changed since she left. Of course there was a Walmart now on Main Street and there was a Dollar Store on the main road, but everything still looked the same. Conner looked like a town right out of a movie. City Hall sat in the middle of town with a sprawling fountain in the front and there were not too many stop lights on the streets. It was more of a four way stop sign type of town.
There was only one high school and there was one highway that brought you in and out of town. Most of the residents had lived there their entire lives and their families had been there for generations. The sheriff still ate at Mattie’s Diner and Mattie’s family still owned the diner. Mattie was too old to stay on her feet all day, so she took to greeting customers and continuing to be the friendly face that everyone expected to see when they came to the diner to get a bite to eat.
Ava couldn’t help but smile as she drove down Main Street. She was home and she couldn’t deny that it felt good. As she sat at one of the only stop lights in town, she looked over to her right as a pick-up truck pulled up alongside of her. He stared at Ava while she sat in her red E550 Benz wearing Gucci shades. She knew that no one would readily recognize her because she had colored her brunette hair to blonde several years ago. Dolce stood up in the seat at the window and started barking.
“Dolce! Sit!” Ava calmed Dolce down and gave a polite smile and wave at the older gentleman in the truck. He nodded and tipped his hat, still wearing a scowl on his face. Ava knew not many people in Conner drove luxury cars. Not that there weren’t people that lived there that couldn’t afford it, but it just wasn’t that type of place. People didn’t have to drive around in expensive cars to impress anyone because no one was impressed by wealth and status much in Conner. The Conner family, for which the town was named, was a family that owned much of the land in the area. The family still owned a dairy farm and they were very well respected. Other than the Conner clan, there were a few families that had old money like the Beiderman family and the Carters.
A chill went up Ava’s spine because she hadn’t thought of the Carter family in ages. Those memories had been buried a long time ago. She hadn’t thought of Christian Carter since the last time she’d seen him when he came to Atlanta to visit her a few years after she left Conner. Ava swallowed the lump in her throat because she didn’t want to think about Christian right now. Christian had made it clear years ago where the two of them stood and he hadn’t hesitated to walk away from her so as far as she was concerned, he wasn’t deserving of the energy she had to put forth thinking of him. She had enough to deal with having to go the hospital to see about her father. The last thing Ava needed right now was a trip back down memory lane thinking of Christian.
Chapter 5
When Ava pulled up to her childhood home, it somehow looked smaller than she remembered. It had once been her entire world. As she got out of the car, she waved to her neighbor Ms. Stanton who was outside watering her lawn in the early morning.
Ms. Stanton paused before waving. “Well now, Ava Marie. It’s good to see you.” Ms. Stanton turned off the water hose and approached her. Dolce jumped out of the car and danced around in the front yard, only
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