Ex-Husband's Regret

Vicious Ava
Rowan.

I see the moment she shuts her emotions down. The moment the warm look she had just a few

seconds ago turns cold. Which leaves me cold.

“What are you doing here?” Ava asks her voice monotonous as I push my way into her house.

It’s like she was talking to a stranger. Like I was nothing but a speck of dust and nothing more. I stare at her unable to come up with anything. I’ve lived with this woman for almost a decade and

yet right now I can’t find the right words.

I look at her hand still in a sling. I came to check up on her and also to pick Noah. It was the

weekend so it was my time with him.

Remembering the man that I saw leaving, my brows furrow. He must be who the smile was for.

That little piece of realization makes my jaw clench.

“What was he doing here?” I ask instead of answering while trying to hide the unreasonable anger

I was feeling.

I get the guy is an officer and that he saved her life but he was crossing a line. I didn’t fucking like

him and I didn’t want him anywhere near Ava.

“That’s none of your business” she retorts.

“It is my business when you’re entertaining.men this early in the morning with my son in the house….did he sleep over? Is that why I saw him leaving?”

The thought of that leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. The last thing I want is for her to be exposing Noah to men months after we separated. It wouldn’t leave a good impression on the type

of woman she is.

She gives a humorless laugh, pulling me back to the present.

“It’s not any of your fucking business…do you see me meddling in your life while you’re busy entertaining Emma? And isn’t it hypocritical of you to stand there judging me?”

I glare at her. “Emma is different”

“How so?” she first feigns puzzlement and then her face lights up as if she figured out something. but I know it’s mockery. “Oh, I forgot she’s the love of your fucking life”

I grind my teeth She was starting to piss me off. What the hell was wrong with her? It’s like she

has something against me.

“I’ll never do anything that would affect Noah but I’m a single woman and I will have whoever!

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dating I’m not planning

last part. For some reason heat starts rising

time to breathe in and calm

been here. It looked different from the house we shared So very different that

from those thoughts and continue walking. I find her in the

“I had hoped you would

days is nothing but pure venom?

weekend Ava, I came for Noah” I

could have done what you

come in”

take a seat on one of the barstools She frowns at me and opens her mouth to speak I was sure she was about to say something that

wait for him while

she fists the dish towel in her small

as we follow the terms of the custody agreement then we can live like

stubborn and difficult all of a sudden? It was getting on my fucking nerves Where the fuck was the agreeable and subdued woman

wanted? For me to be

frustration “I’m not the one who asked for a

gotten into her but I was beginning to regret coming into her house. It seems all she wants to

it and look, it came at the perfect time, just when

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a sour subject but I never lied to her. Never led her on.

mistake nine years

You know I never lied to

it? Gosh I hate you. I don’t know what I saw in you to begin with. I don’t know why I wasted so much of my time

angering me. Yes we did sleep together during our marriage but it was just to scratch an itch. I took vows and despite the fact I didn’t love her. I wasn’t going to break them by cheating on

I’m here to talk about Noah” I say changing the

round and round. I needed to say what I came here to say then

something I would regret

her attentions. She doesn’t fire back. Instead

bottle of medicine. Uncapping it using one hand, she pops two

and swallows.

the label, I

the arm?” I

we both know you don’t care about me

she

hand and all but yell. “Damn

you going to talk? If

Noah is wakes up”

hand around her uninjured hand. She immediately wrenches her hand from me as if my touch

me!” she

it! Is this how she was going to behave from now on? Are we forever going

behavior is one of the reasons why I always preferred Emma. Why I fell

eyes growing colder than

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came to say then get out of my fucking house. I won’t have you insulting me and comparing me to Emma. My behavior doesn’t concern you, we are divorced…so if you

anyone about behaviors go give them to the love of your