Ava's P.O.V
As much as I wanted to confront her, to defend myself, to know who the f**k she was, I trusted Hudson when he told me that he had it under control. So many things raced through my mind as I climbed the stairs. My train of thought was a whirlwind of chaos... then everything spiraled out of control. One minute I was at the top of the stairs and the next I was tumbling down them.
I reached out, trying but failing to hold on to something, anything just to stop or break my fall, but I couldn't. I rolled down so fast, my head and body bumping along as I rolled. It happened so fast and in the blink of an eye it was over. I crashed, knocking my head into the little table at the bottom of the stairs, the vase on it knocking the breath out of me as it fell on my abdomen.
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