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

breath hitched. I’d been left calling

me and told me that Ava’s car had been bombed and that she was badly hurt. I can’t explain how I fucking felt but I know that it went beyond fear, beyond

from those thoughts and look at

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

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

her soft voice pulls me

Emma. Standing next to her is Travis.

she woken up?” Travis asks. His voice

him. Not only 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 like

not leaving,

What if something happened and I wasn’t

you fall down in exhaustion…just go home, I’m sure it won’t

right, Rowan, I promise we

second”

look at Ava She was still asleep and it didn’t seem like she would wake up anytime soon. Maybe I could go get a quick shower and

leave her

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so who knew if those criminals would try to come back

just looks at me

up about to leave when Emma grabs

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

the cheek, chin and forehead. Her lips on mine is a first and even though

feel of them is wrong and

be feeling this when Emma is the

take the quickest shower known to man. I was dressing when I received a

to take a power nap. I haven’t slept

start. Shit! I was supposed to sleep

my phone, I slept

out after reading a message from Travis. Ava woke

and I hate that I

every speed limit, I get to the hospital in forty minutes. I was just about to enter her room

you not to leave her fucking side” I

out” Emma

you mean ‘she kicked you

she feels towards her family she wouldn’t be cruel enough to kick them

she didn’t want us in her room,

to demand we leave” Travis

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

laugh before it’s followed by a

there someone in there with her?”

eyes searching

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Ethan came a few minutes after we were kicked out. He hasn’t

jaw lock. That fucking bastard, what the hell was he doing

another word, I turn and enter her room without

on her right with a bunch of open cards. Ava is seated slightly upwards. Despite the bandage on her head, and the scratches on her face, she

face.

me and the smile slips from

“Get out” she demands.

she was back to being

calmly tell her and

and her eyes are blazing. She was

happened? 2

you just fucking

any of

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