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

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

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

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force myself to smile. I was grateful

to be left

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

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

like hell” the annoying mocking voice cause me to

I wasn’t in any mood to deal

it seems like she wants to pick

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

secretary sneers.

fists. She was baiting me and I knew it. Everyone in the city

me. Someone had managed to leak the story and the media had

find out about

had leaked the story after he had buried the

would always take any chance she got to

course Rowan never believed me when I told him she was a bitch to me. He

that I’m the one

what you’re trying to achieve when I know

I tell her

achieve anything just stating

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

because

down her body then back up. She looked

a few rounds with a MMA

you still tell me the same

shit over

at me shocked, Probably because I talked

bad side. This time though, I had nothing

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“How

with your sister right

slowly starting to kill

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

snarls

time and she trips on her extremely high and

me. I don’t think when I take the carton of milk in my

throw it at her.

Both of us staring in shock.

and screaming like

on and throw it at

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