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

in a store because she noticed

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

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to smile. I was grateful for her concern, but

to be left

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

that she gives me one final look before leaving. I heave a sigh of relief before going back to looking at the

look like hell” the annoying mocking voice cause me to

in any

always it seems like she wants to pick a

place when you tried stealing her man too?” Christine,

secretary sneers.

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

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

find out about the

had leaked the story after he had

liked me. She would always take any chance she got to put

Of course Rowan never believed me when I told him she was

the one that probably provoked

achieve when I know you

me” I tell her

stating facts. I wouldn’t be

dead was a woman you tried stealing her man,

women’s men because you’re

her body then back up.

I had gone a few rounds with a MMA

the

tiring hearing the same shit over and over

because I talked back. It’s something I’ve

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

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me an evil smile. “How does

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

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

snarls before lunging at

side step her in time and she trips on her extremely high

when I take the carton of milk

throw it at her.

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

screaming like a banshee. I take

throw it at

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