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

fight all

no one knew me. A place so far away from my family and Rowan. A place no one knew them.

would have just been fine with

“Ava?”

ask as a response. I had gotten

if they were blaming you, they should have blamed him too” he gives me a

look at him with round

me?” I ask

I mean no one has ever believed that I was drunk. They

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don’t you believe you’re also innocent?” his blue eyes seer

blame. That I wasn’t drunk at all, that sometimes I believe that’s exactly what happened.

that I took advantage of his drunken state that sometimes I

sad really. That sometimes I think that my memory is faulty. I mean

Rowan’s hand was my punishment. That God was punishing me for wanting and sleeping with a man that didn’t belong to me.

their 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

they put me through, Rowan especially. That a man

I would never regret my son. He was the one that saved. He was anchor

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

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

glad that I had chosen to

parents should have been ashamed for placing the entire blame on an eighteen year old girl. Rowan should have taken responsibility for his actions instead

one that sought

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his hand from mine and runs it through his hair. “The more I know about Rowan and your family, the more I dislike them” he says

After all, I was beginning

he says then helps me

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