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?”

that no one saw

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I seethed. “There is just

of

the surface. I was almost losing it. First I hear that Emma threatened Noah and that Travis did nothing. Then I had to watch while

made googly

enthralled that she couldn’t see a fucking thing. What the hell was wrong with her? She’s the most cautious person I know, yet she let him into her life

question anything.

about?” he asks giving me his

sit

don’t know how to fucking explain it, but there is just

doesn’t feel right

make any fucking sense, but I can’t ignore the feeling. That’s why I have my

investigating him.

for a while and when he does, I feel like punching

be that you’re

hell would I be jealous of him? I don’t have any fucking

for Ava, remember?”

was absurd. I could never be jealous when it comes to Ava. She

looking after him.

her for nine fucking years,

them. Especially

shock, before shaking my head. “There’s

to her because of Noah. My heart always

That’s the reason I couldn’t develop any

had completely lost his fucking mind. It’s not unusual for people

change

after the stunt she pulled to get me to sleep

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so strongly about

you! I wouldn’t have cared if she dated any other man, but something

fishy with that cop”

was only making me more pissed. I thought

like he doesn’t. Instead he has this stupid notion that I’m

feelings for Ava

horribly for it, but what if she wasn’t lying when she said she was drunk? What if she was telling the

“That’s impossible”

We’ll except for Ava. After what happened, we

the girl

of you had

him quietly, I stand frozen. What the fuck had

as he takes out his

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