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.

everyone was like this woman, then the world would be a better place.

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

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looks at me skeptically. I force myself to smile.

be

hand. “Things

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

look like hell” the annoying mocking

it, I wasn’t in any

like always it seems like she wants to

someone finally put your in place when you tried stealing her man too?”

secretary sneers.

fists. She was baiting me and

had managed to leak the story and the media had been

to find out about the previous

the story after he had buried the other

would always take any chance she got to put

never believed me when I told him she was

her side, claiming that I’m the one that probably provoked

you’re trying to achieve when I

I tell

just stating facts. I wouldn’t

was a woman you tried stealing her man, after all, that’s what

because you’re a slut”

run my eyes down her body then back up. She

had gone a

years and you still tell me the same

tiring hearing the same shit

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

getting on Rowan’s bad side.

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

he’s with your

him. I’m slowly starting to kill the love I have for him. It also helps that Ethan distracts me from thoughts of my

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 woman enough? That he preferred to fuck me even though he hated me rather than take you as his mistress? And how does it

ugly bitch!” she snarls before lunging at

step her in time and she

think when I take the carton of milk in my cart

throw it at her.

us staring in shock. With what I can

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

and throw it

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