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 the

my family and Rowan. A place no one knew them. I’m sure they

would have just been fine with

“Ava?”

a response. I

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

look at him with round

me?” I

and I mean no one has ever believed that I was drunk. They all thought I was malicious and I took advantage of an innocent

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course I do, don’t you believe you’re also innocent?” his blue eyes seer into me. As

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

I took advantage of his drunken state that sometimes I doubt the events of my own

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

was my punishment. That God was punishing me for wanting and sleeping with a man that didn’t belong to me. That’s also something everyone has told me. That my

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

when I think of everything they put me through, Rowan especially. That a man you love could destroy you leaves you wondering if there’s truly any good in

out of that mistake is Noah. I would never regret my son. He was the one that saved. He was anchor during the times when

hate that I thought of it. I knew that Rowan would take good care of him. He fell in love with Noah

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

concerning Noah, I’m glad that I had chosen

You were both drunk so no one was to blame. 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 the blame

one that sought

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he pulls his hand from mine and runs it through his hair. “The

I was beginning to hate

then helps me

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