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 a better place.

approached me in the middle of an isle in a store

need. I’m okay, just a bit overwhelmed”

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at me skeptically. I force myself to smile.

to be

closer and squeezes my hand. “Things will get

look before leaving. I heave a sigh of relief before going back to looking at the

you look like hell” the annoying

I wasn’t in any mood to

like always it seems like she wants to pick

someone finally put your in place when you tried stealing

secretary sneers.

hands in fists. She was baiting me

leak the story and the

had also managed to find out about the previous attempts on my life. So

the story after he

take any chance she

I told him she was a bitch to me. He

the one that

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

to me” I tell her

achieve anything just stating facts. I wouldn’t be surprised if whoever

was a woman you tried stealing her man, after

because you’re

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

I had gone a few

years and you still tell me the same things, don’t you

tiring hearing the same shit over

because I talked back. It’s something I’ve never done.

back and getting on Rowan’s bad side. This

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smile. “How does it feel to lose Rowan?

with your sister right

starting to kill the love I have for him. It also helps that

I was his wife while you were nothing but a mere secretary one he had no interest in. So, I pose the same 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

snarls before

in time and she trips on her

I don’t think when I

throw it at her.

staring in shock. With what I can only describe as

like a banshee. I take

on and throw it at

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