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

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

need. I’m okay, just

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looks at me skeptically. I force myself to smile. I was

be

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

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

like hell” the annoying mocking voice cause me to

wasn’t in any mood to deal with

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

when

secretary sneers.

me and I knew it. Everyone in the city knew

to me. Someone had managed to leak the

to find out about the previous attempts on

had leaked the

liked me. She would always take any chance

believed me when I told him she was a bitch

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

when I know

I

not trying to achieve anything just stating facts. I wouldn’t be surprised

a woman you tried stealing her man,

men because you’re

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

had gone a few rounds with a

still tell me the same things,

tiring hearing the same shit over

Probably because I talked back.

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

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“How does it feel to lose Rowan?

with your

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

didn’t love me but 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 woman enough? That he preferred to fuck me even though he hated me rather than take you as his mistress? And how does

she snarls before lunging

time and she trips on her extremely high

don’t think when I take

throw it at her.

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

screaming like a banshee. I

throw it

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