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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bound to start dating I’m not planning

last part. For some reason heat starts rising up in my core making me

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

never been here. It looked different from the house we shared So very

shake myself from those thoughts and continue walking. I find her

looks up, glaring at me. “I had hoped you would

past few days is nothing but pure venom? It’s like all she wants is to strike at me and her

the weekend Ava, I came for

have done what you

come in”

of the barstools She frowns at me and opens her mouth to speak I was sure she was about to

I can wait for him while

she fists the dish towel

as we follow the terms of the custody agreement then we can live like the other doesn’t

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 was

wanted? For me to be

bridge of my nose in frustration “I’m not the one who asked

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

at the perfect time, just when Empia comes back to town Now you

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

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

you want me to say? You know I

dishtowel down angrily. “That didn’t stop you from using my body did it? Gosh I hate you. I don’t know what I saw in

it was just to scratch

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

to say what I came here to say then leave before

or did something I

back. Instead she

using one hand, she pops two

and swallows.

label, I realize it’s

the arm?” I

so talk Rowan… we both know you don’t care about me

concern” she snaps.

hand and all

stating the truth. Are you going to talk?

Noah is wakes up”

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

touch me!”

she was going to behave from now on? Are we forever

I always preferred Emma. Why I fell in love with her” I ground out, my temper getting

twists. Her eyes growing colder

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

go give them to the love of your