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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