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

to a place where no one knew me. A place so far away from my family and Rowan.

just been

“Ava?”

response. I had gotten lost in thought

You were also drunk, so if they were blaming you, they should have blamed

look at him with round

me?” I ask him

and I mean no one has ever believed that I was drunk. They all thought I was malicious and I

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innocent?” his blue eyes seer into me. As if he was trying to unveil all

that I was to blame. That I wasn’t drunk at all, that sometimes I believe that’s exactly what happened. Everyone has pounded it in me, cementing

advantage of his drunken state that sometimes I doubt

that my memory is faulty. I mean if everyone says I’m guilty isn’t

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

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

me through, Rowan especially. That a man you love could destroy you leaves you

is Noah. I would never regret my son. He was the one that saved. He was anchor during the times when I wanted to end it

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

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 hate for me

words she spewed at me concerning Noah, I’m glad that I had chosen to stay strong

You 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 of allowing all

one that sought

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

I was beginning

on” he says then helps

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