Ex-Husband's Regret

Chapter 36

His remedy
Present day.

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“So you see, they have a reason to hate me…I ruined their love” I mutter as tears fill my eyes.

It’s always painful for me to go down memory lane. I was naïve and foolish. Thinking that I could

ake him love me after I literally ruined his life. Nine years later and I’m still paying the price for

loving Rowan Woods.

“It wasn’t your fault?” Ethan asks me, his fingers slowly caressing mine.

“It was. I let my obsession with him take center stage and because of that I made the biggest

mistake of my life” the tears fall freely now.

If only I could go back in time. If only I could change things. I’ve lived my life in regret. I wish I

had listened to that nagging voice in my head. I wish I had payed attention to it instead of

ignoring it. It would have saved me from so much heartache and pain.

Hell, I wish I had realized earlier that I was pregnant. I could have escaped earlier. I would have

left and never told Rowan that I was pregnant with his child. No one would have been the wiser. I know it sounds downright evil but looking back now it would have saved Noah from seeing Rowan

I fight all

me. A place so far away from my family and Rowan. A place

have just been fine

“Ava?”

I had

so if they were blaming you, they

at him with round

I ask him

was drunk. They all thought I

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eyes seer into me. As

“I got so tired of hearing that I was to blame. That I wasn’t drunk at all, that sometimes I believe that’s exactly what

advantage of his drunken state that sometimes I doubt the events of

think that my memory is faulty. I

other times I think that the pain I went through at Rowan’s hand was my punishment. That God was punishing me for wanting and sleeping with a man that didn’t belong to

truth and beliefs down your throat. That’s what happened with me. Soon after I started believing them. Believing that I was a fault. Believing that

through, Rowan especially. That a man you

good thing that came out of that mistake is Noah. I would never regret my son. He was the one that saved. He was anchor

the constant pain, the constant hate that I thought of it. I knew that Rowan would take good

pulled myself from that darkness when I realized what leaving Noah would mean. I didn’t want him to think I was weak. Most especially I didn’t want Emma as his step mother. I knew Rowan would get back together with her and I was afraid she would transfer her

words she spewed at me concerning Noah, I’m glad that I had chosen to stay strong I wasn’t going

blame. You parents should have been ashamed for placing the entire blame on an eighteen year

one

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and runs it through his hair. “The more I know about Rowan and

say anything. After all, I was beginning to hate

then

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