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

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

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

all honesty I’ve never been here. It looked different from the house we shared So very

thoughts and continue walking. I find her in the kitchen

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

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

Ava, I came for

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

come in”

of the barstools She frowns at me and opens her mouth to speak I was sure she was about to say something that would probably piss me

can wait for him

she fists the dish towel in her small

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

getting on my fucking nerves Where the fuck was the agreeable and subdued woman

me to be out of your life”

of my nose in frustration

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

time, just when Empia comes back to town Now you can be with her the you’ve

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

it wasn’t for the mistake nine years ago, then she

do you want me to say? You know I never lied to you. You always knew I

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

marriage but it was just to scratch an itch. I

here to

to say what I

did something I

gets her attentions. She doesn’t fire back. Instead she opens one of the cabinets

medicine. Uncapping it using one hand, she pops two

and swallows.

I realize

the arm?” I

both know you don’t care about me so

she

and all but yell. “Damn it

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

Noah is wakes up”

around her uninjured hand. She

touch me!” she

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

I always preferred Emma. Why I fell

growing colder than I could

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fucking house. I won’t have you insulting me

give them to the love