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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I’m bound to start dating I’m not planning to stay

clench into fists at the last part. For some reason heat starts rising up in my core making me want

in the hallway. I take time to breathe in and calm myself. I follow the sounds of pans banging while I survey her

looked different from the house

those thoughts and continue walking. I find her in the kitchen wiping down the

“I had hoped you would leave. In case you haven’t guessed it, your

of her mouth these past few days is nothing but pure venom? It’s like all she wants is to strike

I came for Noah”

you could have done

come in”

me and opens her mouth to speak I

okay I can wait for him while

she fists the dish towel in her

Rowan, we have nothing to talk about As long as we follow the terms of the custody agreement then we can live

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

For me to be out of your life” she

frustration “I’m not the one who asked for

her house. It seems all she wants to do is light. I wasnt in the fucking mood. Not when I was supposed to meet with

you didn’t want it and look, it came at the perfect time, just when Empia comes back to

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subject but I never lied to her. Never led

it wasn’t for the mistake nine years ago, then she is the one that would

to say? You know I

from using my body did it? Gosh I hate you. I don’t know what I saw in you to begin with. I

marriage but it was just to scratch

not here to talk about the past, I’m here to

draining going round and round. I needed to say what I

something I would regret

back. Instead she opens one of the

it using one hand, she

and swallows.

I

the arm?” I

Rowan… we both know

she snaps.

all but

just stating the truth. Are you going to talk? If not you

Noah is wakes up”

goes to leave but I clump my hand around her uninjured hand. She immediately wrenches her hand from

touch me!”

behave from now on? Are we forever going to be at each other’s throats? We had a son for fuck’s

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

growing colder than I could ever thought

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what you 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,

go give them to the love of your