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.

the world would be

in a store because she

just a

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smile. I was grateful for

be

closer and squeezes my hand. “Things will get better. Always have

before leaving. I heave a sigh of

you look like hell” the annoying mocking voice cause me to

in any mood to deal with

to ignore her, but like always it seems like she wants to

when you tried stealing her man too?”

secretary sneers.

in fists. She was baiting me

to me. Someone had managed to leak the

about the previous attempts

out who had leaked the

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

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

claiming that I’m the one

sure what you’re trying to achieve when I know you know full

I

trying to achieve anything just stating facts. I

you tried stealing her man, after all, that’s what you are good at.

because you’re

back up. She looked elegant and impeccable

like I had gone a few rounds

tell me the same things, don’t you ever come up with

It’s tiring hearing the same shit over and over

because I talked

and getting on Rowan’s bad side. This time though, I had

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gives me an evil smile. “How does it feel to lose Rowan?

with your

kill the love I

question back, how does it feel to know you will 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 than take you as his mistress? And how does it feel to know that you won’t

bitch!” she snarls before lunging

time and she trips on her extremely high and expensive

she comes at me. I don’t think when I take the

throw it at her.

it drenches her dress. Both of us staring in shock. With what I can only describe

Seething and screaming like a banshee. I take whatever

and throw

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