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.

only everyone was like this woman, then the world would be

approached me in the middle of an isle in a store because she noticed that I was losing

I’m okay, just

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smile. I was grateful for her concern, but I

to be

closer and squeezes my hand. “Things will

me one final look before leaving. I heave a sigh of relief before

the annoying mocking voice cause me to turn

in any

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

finally put your in place when you

secretary sneers.

fists. She was baiting me and I knew

Someone had managed to leak the story and the

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

leaked the story after

liked me. She would always take any chance she got

believed me when I told him she was a bitch to me. He

the

sure what you’re trying to achieve when

I tell her

achieve anything just stating facts. I wouldn’t

you tried stealing her man, after all,

men because you’re a slut”

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

gone a few rounds with a

the same things, don’t you ever

hearing the same shit

I talked back. It’s something

bad side. This

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

he’s with

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

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 feel to know that you won’t stand a chance now that Emma was back?” I smirk, feeling happy that

she snarls

in time and

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

throw it at her.

dress. Both of us staring

comes at me. Seething and screaming like a banshee. I take whatever I can

throw it

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