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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start dating I’m

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

me in the hallway. I take time to breathe in and calm myself. I follow the sounds of pans

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

continue walking. I find her in the kitchen wiping down the

looks up, glaring at me. “I had hoped you would leave. In case you haven’t guessed it, your presence

few days is nothing but pure

Ava, I came for Noah”

not awake yet and you could have done what you always do Honk You didn’t

come in”

frowns at me and opens her mouth to speak I was sure she was about to say something that would probably

can wait for him while we

deepens, and she fists the dish towel

to talk about As long as we follow the terms of the custody agreement then we can live like the other doesn’t exist

on

wanted? For me to be

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

regret coming into her house. It seems all she wants to do is light. I wasnt in the fucking mood. Not

when Empia comes back to town Now you can be with her

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know it’s always a sour subject but I never lied to her. Never led her

the mistake nine years ago,

know I never lied to you. You always

it? Gosh I hate you. I don’t know what I

was just to scratch

talk about the past, I’m here to

to say what I came here to say then

did something I

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

medicine. Uncapping it using one hand, she pops two pills

and swallows.

the label, I

arm?”

talk Rowan… we both

she

hand and all but yell. “Damn it

truth. Are you going to talk? If

Noah is wakes up”

I clump my hand around her uninjured hand. She immediately wrenches her hand

me!” she

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

Why I fell in love with her” I ground out, my temper getting the

eyes growing colder

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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

about behaviors go give them to the love of