Ex-Husband's Regret

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Rowan.

“How is she doing, Rowan?” Kate, Ava’s mother asks.

The concern in her voice is genuine. You can hear how hard she’s trying to stop herself from

crying. It’s been a very hard couple of days and I still can’t over how we almost lost Ava

“She woke up yesterday for a few minutes before going back to sleep and before you start

worrying, the doctor said it’s normal for patients with head injuries”

I hear her sigh with relief. Kate has been different since the death of her husband She wants to

get close to Ava only now Ava has decided she doesn’t want anything to do with her family. In fact

she doesn’t want anything to do with all of us.

“Will she be okay? Will she make a full recovery?”

“Yes, the doctors are confident, but they’re not sure if she will be completely okay. It’s still too

early to tell but they say with this type of head injury there might be complications”

That was one of the things I was fucking afraid of. In all honest I just wanted her to be okay.

“Don’t worry though, Ava is strong I’m sure she’ll pull through. I got to go but I’ll call when she

wakes up, the last time she did, she was asking about Noah”

“Okay, Rowan, please keep me informed and make sure she’s getting the best treatment”

“I will”

I hang up after that and watch her. She looks so peaceful and beautiful. Why have I never noticed

how flawless her complexion is? Or how naturally long her eye lashes are? Or how full and red her

lips are

‘Because you never wanted to, you were so focused on hating and blaming her that you never

noticed anything good about her‘ my inner voice whispers. *

I sigh because I know that it’s the truth. I never wanted her so I went to great lengths to block her

out and it had worked until now. This new version of Ava demands attention. Demands to be

noticed.

I take her hand in mine. It’s so small and so soft. I’ve been doing this a lot. Rubbing her wrist and

feeling her pulse just to assure myself that she was still alive. That that bombing had not taken

her from us

Whenever I think of that Sunday, my heart squeezes and I feel like I’m fucking dying. I had called

her to warn her to stay away from Emma. Emma had come to me crying. She told me that Ava had

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to lay it on her.

The

heard the booming sound and people screaming my breath hitched. I’d been left calling

bombed and that she was badly hurt. I can’t explain how I fucking felt but I know that it went beyond fear, beyond anguish. Something that I

shake myself from those thoughts

had to be taken to her house because they couldn’t fit here. Most of them were from her students. Those kids adored Ava, no one needed to be told twice. They visited her in groups each day and called her nurse to check up

her students lavish her with love changed my perspective. They wouldn’t do all that if she wasn’t a great teacher. Her colleagues also had nothing but praise for her, which just made

pulls me from my

next to her is Travis. Unlike Emma,

up?” Travis asks. His voice

him but everyone. He came close to losing

“No” I reply.

Emma says, “Go take a shower and change clothes then you can come back. You look

leaving, Emma” I

if something

exhaustion…just go home, I’m sure

right, Rowan, I promise we won’t leave her

second”

at Ava She was still asleep and it didn’t seem like she would wake up anytime

leave her side”

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criminals would

on Ava. Emma just looks at me

stand up about to leave when Emma grabs

stubborn to surrender to death” she says with her smile before pecking my

again it’s been pecks on the cheek, chin and forehead. Her lips on mine is a first and even though I’ve

are wrong, the feel of them is wrong and the kiss itself is

be feeling this when Emma is the woman I’ve been craving for

when I received a text from Travis letting me know that Ava

take a power nap. I haven’t slept

with a start. Shit! I was supposed

I

rush out after reading a message from Travis. Ava woke up about

I hate that I

in forty minutes. I was just about to enter her room

thought I told you not to leave her fucking side” I growl,

out” Emma

do you mean ‘she

way Ava would do that and despite what she feels towards her family she wouldn’t be cruel enough to kick them out in

want us in her room, so the

demand we leave” Travis

an emotion in his voice. He was trying so hard to

I hear her laugh before it’s followed by a

someone in there

answers. Her eyes searching mine,

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after we were kicked out. He

jaw lock. That fucking bastard, what the

and enter her room

is seated slightly upwards. Despite the bandage on

face.

and the smile

“Get out” she demands.

back

gonna happen, Ava” I calmly tell her and take a seat

eyes are blazing.

happened? 2

don’t want you here, so you could you just fucking leave, and take those

of

assume she was referring to Emma and Travis. Something happened. Yesterday she was