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 not planning

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

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

the house we shared So

from those thoughts and continue walking. I

“I had hoped you would

that everything out of her mouth these past few days is nothing but pure

the weekend Ava, I

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

come in”

seat on one 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

wait for him while we

fists the dish towel in

follow the terms of the custody agreement then we can live

sudden? It was getting on my fucking nerves Where the

For me to be

pinch the bridge of my nose in frustration “I’m

into her but I was beginning to regret coming into her house. It seems all she wants to

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

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lied to her.

the mistake nine years ago, then she is the one that would

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

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 you to begin with. I don’t know why I wasted

sleep together during our marriage but it was just to scratch an

about the past, I’m here to talk

and round. I needed to say what I came

something I would regret

back. Instead she opens one of

of medicine. Uncapping it using one hand, she pops

and swallows.

label, I realize

the arm?”

both know you

she

hand and all but

just stating the truth. Are you going to

Noah is wakes up”

her uninjured hand.

touch me!”

to behave from now on? Are we forever going to be at each other’s

childish behavior is one of the reasons why I always preferred Emma. Why I fell in love with her” I ground out, my temper getting the better

growing colder than I could ever

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

about behaviors go give