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.

like this woman, then the world would be a

approached me in the middle of an isle in a store because she noticed

no need. I’m okay, just a bit overwhelmed” I

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at me skeptically. I force myself to smile. I was grateful for her concern,

be left

hand. “Things will get better. Always

that she gives me one final look before leaving. I heave a sigh

the annoying mocking voice cause me

any mood to

always it seems like she wants to

place when you tried stealing her

secretary sneers.

She was baiting me and I knew

the story and the media had been

had also managed to find out about the previous attempts

find out who had leaked the story

always take any chance

me when I told him she was a

that I’m the one that probably provoked

not sure what you’re trying to achieve when I know you know full

I tell

not trying to achieve anything just stating

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

women’s men because you’re a

back up. She looked elegant and impeccable like always while

had gone a few rounds with a MMA

the same

hearing the same shit over and

Probably because I talked back.

getting on Rowan’s bad side. This

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recovers quickly and gives me an evil smile. “How does it

that he’s with your sister right

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

tried your best to seduce him but he never reciprocated. Sure, he 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 it feel to know that you won’t stand a chance now that Emma

ugly bitch!” she snarls before lunging at

her in time and she trips on her extremely high and

when I take the carton of milk in my cart

throw it at her.

of us staring in shock. With what I can

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

throw it

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