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 a better

the middle of an isle in a

okay, just a bit overwhelmed” I

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force myself to smile. I was

be left

hand. “Things will get

heave a sigh of relief before going back to looking at the rows of

annoying mocking voice cause me

I wasn’t in any

but like always it seems like she wants to pick a

when you tried stealing her man

secretary sneers.

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

leak the story and the media had been

find out about the previous attempts on my life.

had leaked the story after he

would always take any chance she got to put me down

when I told him she was a bitch to me.

that I’m the one that probably provoked

when

I

achieve anything just stating facts.

man,

because you’re a slut”

back up. She looked

like I had gone a

these years and you still tell me the same things,

shit over and over again” I

I

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

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an evil smile. “How does it feel to

that he’s with your sister right

slowly starting to let go of him. I’m slowly starting to kill

the way thinking Rowan will notice you. Even when we were married, you 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

snarls before lunging

her in time and she trips on her

think when I take the carton of milk in my

throw it at her.

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

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

throw it

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