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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to start dating I’m not planning to stay

into fists at the last part. For some reason heat starts rising

breathe in and calm myself. I follow the sounds of pans banging

never been here. It looked different from the house we shared So very different that I was momentarily

from those thoughts and continue walking. I find

hoped you would leave.

past few days is nothing but

the weekend Ava, I came for Noah” I

have done what

come in”

opens her mouth to speak I was sure she was about to say something that would probably piss

wait

the dish towel in her small

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

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

to be out of your life” she

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

she wants to do is light. I wasnt in the fucking mood. Not when I was supposed to meet

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

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subject but I never lied to

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

want me to say? You know I never lied

my body did 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 and

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

past, I’m here

say what I came here to say then leave before

or did something I would regret

gets her attentions. She doesn’t fire back. Instead

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

and swallows.

label, I realize it’s

the arm?” I

we both know you

concern” she snaps.

all but

the truth. Are you going to talk? If not you can

Noah is wakes up”

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

touch me!”

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

I always preferred Emma. Why I fell in

Her eyes growing colder than I

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house. I won’t have you insulting me and comparing me to Emma. My

on anyone about behaviors go give