Ex-Husband's Regret

Chapter 33

Drowning my pain
My phone rings for the hundredth time today. Letty’s name flashes but just like those other times,

I ignore her calls. She’s been trying to call me since yesterday.

I wasn’t in the right frame of mind to talk to her. She was still connected to the world and people I

wanted to stay away from. That left me at crossroads. 1

“Give me another” I ask the bartender immediately after my phone stops ringing.

Today was my birthday and this is how I was celebrating it. Alone in a bar, drinking some fruity kind of concoction, still hurting from Rowan’s vile words.

I’ve tried so much to push those thoughts away. I’ve tried harder to forget every word he threw at me, but it’s hard. They’re imprinted in my damn head like a fucking tattoo.

We’ve been married for years, yet it never crossed my mind that he thought of me as nothing but a slut. That he was using me as a substitute for Emma in bed. My heart has broken over and over again since that day at my house.

I should have been surprised that he chose to believe every single word Emma said but I’m not. It’s typical of him to believe everyone except the woman he has lived with for nine fucking years.

Whoever said that words hurts more than punches was right. This time I fear that Rowan might have broken me beyond repair.

“Here” the cute bartender tells me.

He looks at me in sympathy, probably knowing that I was here to drown my sorrows. He must have seen this kind of thing thousands of time.

I take the drink from him, while avoiding his eyes. I didn’t need his sympathy. What I need is a new brain. A a new heart that isn’t tainted by pain and heartbreak. A soul unmarked by Rowan’s cruelty.

If I knew this was the future that awaited me years back, I would have ran for the hills. If I knew loving Rowan would destroy me in this manner, I would have flee to another continent, hell, another planet, just to escape him.

I wish I could smack some sense into my younger self. Maybe then I could have avoided all this heart ache

+15 BONUS

I stare into nothing. My mind completely lost. I wasn’t drunk yet but I was starting to feel the buzz. That’s what I wanted. I needed a break from the constant pain.

to give me that reprieve even if it’s just

dancing. I haven’t danced in such a long time. I wanted to let

to the floor. I close my eyes and let the music take over. I start to move to the beat. Feeling my problems start to fade for a little bit. Here in this moment I could pretend

I feel people come up behind me to dance, I still don’t open my eyes, even when I’m grinding against

with them, but I decline. I ignore them and eventually they give up and

tiredness start to seep into my bones, I stop, open my eyes and head to the bar. I sit down on the barstool and

it, thinking it was

to accept the

Ethan” I frown because my voice was

completely out of her mind with worry saying she hasn’t been able to reach you since yesterday?” he

I gave it to her. She had insisted on having it

okay I just don’t want to talk to her right now”

wasn’t too loud but it was loud all

club or something?” he asks just as someone screams that the music playing was their favorite

“Sort of”

+15 BONUS

“Are you drunk?”

I was planning to drink myself to oblivion

have a designated

cop character was coming out to play and I liked that. I also liked that he was

plan to take a taxi”

ten minutes” he

said that. Deciding that it wasn’t that important, I

mind. Today was all about forgetting and letting myself

in the seat next to mine.

here?” I

you I’d be here in ten when we talked, don’t you remember?” he asked

staring at him like he was a dream. Still unable to understand how he was here

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