That night
Rowan
“What the hell happened to you?” Gabe asks looking at the ice pack that was plastered to my face.
“Ethan” I just grunt. Not in the mood to deal with my brother.
Fuck! I still can’t believe that I got into a fight with the fucking idiot. I was just so pissed and I let
his words get to me.
“The cop?” He asks curiously. “Ava’s new man?”
At that I blow. I take the ice pack and throw it against the wall.
“He’s not her fucking man” I snap standing up.
My emotions were raw and close to the surface. I still don’t understand why Ava can’t see that the
fucker is a fraud.
I haven’t been able to get anything deeper about him. The reports paint him as an okay guy.
Nothing out of the ordinary, but my gut tell me otherwise. There was just something about him
that rubbed me wrong. Something that he was hiding. My gut has never been wrong before.
“From what I hear, he is…what happened?”
I take a deep breath, trying to cool down the fire burning inside me.
“We were helping Ava move furniture into her new house and he told me to back off. Said that she
was his and he wasn’t going to allow me to ruin things” I admit finally.
Gabe stares at me like he can’t believe what I just said. Like I was trying to figure out what the
hell was wrong with me.
“Seriously? That’s what made you get into a fight with him”
“Yes!”
He sighs before sitting down. “In case you haven’t noticed, she’s no longer your wife and given that
he is dating her, he has every reason to ask you to back off. Isn’t that the same thing you asked of
Ava when you started dating Emma?”
frustration. Why is it that no one
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about that” I seethed. “There is just something about the man that isn’t
none of you see
surface. I was almost losing it. First
googly eyes at each
him. So enthralled that she couldn’t see a fucking thing. What the hell was wrong with her? She’s
question anything.
are you talking about?” he
pacing. I just couldn’t sit down with all the fucking emotions inside
to fucking explain it, but there is just
feel right
any fucking sense, but I can’t ignore the feeling. That’s why I have my
investigating him.
says nothing for a while and when he does, I feel like punching the
that
am” I bellow. “Why the hell would I be jealous of him? I
for Ava, remember?”
absurd. I could never be jealous when it comes
and I’m looking
fucking years,
develop any feelings towards them. Especially
my head. “There’s no fucking
her because of Noah. My heart always belonged
I couldn’t develop any feelings for
not unusual for people to stay married even
change the fact that I wasn’t Ava biggest
stunt she pulled to
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explain to me why you feel so strongly about
wouldn’t have cared if she dated any other
fishy with that cop”
were going round in circles and it was only
doesn’t. Instead he has this stupid notion that
feelings for Ava
her horribly for it, but what if she wasn’t lying when she said she was drunk? What if
“That’s impossible”
with Emma. We’ll except
girl who had
that both of you
frozen. What the fuck
he takes out his phone and dials a
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