Hope's POV ***** Two Weeks Ago ***** I thought that my mother was gone. I was hoping that she had gone and left me in piece and now here she is in my house again. I thought that I had made it clear to her that I do not want her in my life, and yet she kept on popping up like a bad rash. Kim was surprised to see her, especially since I hadn't told her about my mother. The woman left me when I was a child. I didn't think she deserved a place in my heart or in my life. I went through a lot of things in my life, things I wouldn't have had to do if she hadn't left me. I became a mother at a young age. I was only eighteen when I fell pregnant with AJ, and I fell pregnant because I wanted a way out of the sh**ty life she left me with. I wouldn't even have been at that hotel to begin with. I