Ex-Husband's Regret

Chapter 28

A kiss
Ava.

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I am still recovering from my attack. I am mentally and physically battered and I just want all this

to be over. Three times someone has tried to kill me. Three times I managed to survive. I just don’t

know when my luck will run out because at this point whoever wants me dead seems hell–bent on

making sure I don’t see Noah again.

I shiver when I remember how close to meeting my maker I had been. He had been right there in

my house. He’d planned to rape me there before killing me. Tears fill my eyes and it takes

everything in me not to let them fall.

I’ve cried enough this past few days. I was tired of it, but I just didn’t understand why. Why would

anyone want me dead? I haven’t wronged anyone, well except for Emma. Even with her, she was

now with Rowan so that should have absolved me of my sins. I didn’t deserve what was happening

to me.

My greatest fear was that they succeed. It would mean that I don’t get to see my boy growing up.

That I would miss all the milestones in his life and it saddened me. The thought of that potential

future broke my heart into a million different pieces.

“Are you okay miss?” someone asks me.

I look up to find an elderly woman staring at me with concern. Her kind eyes assessing my face. It

was still a bit bruised but at least the swelling had gone down. Now I just had the healing lip,

black eye and purple cheek.

“I’m okay, thank you” I try to smile, but I just don’t feel like it.

I’ve been in a kind of funk since my attack happened. I’m just going through the motions. Nothing

feels real, it all just feels like a bad dream. I was still waiting for myself to wake up. Deep down I

know that this is real, but a part of me thinks if just pretend then it will all go away.

“You don’t look okay…Do you want me to call someone for you?” she asks.

like this woman, then the world would be a better place. I’m a

middle of an isle in a store because she noticed that I

just a bit overwhelmed” I assure

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skeptically. I force myself to smile. I was grateful

to be left

hand. “Things will get

heave a sigh of relief before going

look like hell” the annoying mocking voice cause me to

I wasn’t in any mood to deal

ignore her, but like always it seems

your in place when you tried stealing her man too?” Christine,

secretary sneers.

fists. She was baiting me

to me. Someone had managed to leak the story and the media had

find out about the previous attempts

out who had leaked the story after he had

liked me. She would always take any chance she got to put me down and

Of course Rowan never believed me when I told him she was a bitch

side, claiming that I’m the one that probably

not sure what you’re trying to achieve when I know you know full

to me” I

stating

you tried stealing her man, after all,

because

eyes down her body then back up. She looked elegant and impeccable

I had gone a few

still tell me the same things, don’t you

hearing the same shit over and over again” I

at me shocked, Probably because I talked back. It’s something I’ve never done.

on Rowan’s bad side. This

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an evil smile. “How does it feel to lose

that he’s with your sister

it hurts, sometimes, but I’m slowly starting to let go of him. I’m slowly starting to kill the love I have for him. It also helps that Ethan distracts me from thoughts

never be his woman? That he will never see you as anything other than his secretary. How does it feel to know that he doesn’t consider you woman enough? That he preferred to fuck me even though he hated me rather

snarls before lunging at

her in time and she trips on her extremely high and

at me. I don’t think when I take

throw it at her.

it drenches her dress. Both of us staring in shock.

cry, she comes at me. Seething and screaming like a banshee. I take whatever I can get

and throw

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