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?”
fist my hand in frustration. Why is it that no one saw what I saw. No one realized the
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I seethed. “There is just something about the man that isn’t fucking right.
none of
was almost losing it. First I hear that Emma threatened Noah and that Travis did
Ava made googly eyes
was wrong with
question anything.
talking about?” he asks giving me
pacing. I just couldn’t sit
explain it, but there is just something I don’t like
doesn’t feel right with
can’t ignore the
investigating him.
when he does, I
that you’re jealous
hell would I be jealous of
for Ava, remember?”
saying was absurd. I could never be jealous when it
looking after him. That’s
nine fucking years, it’s hard to
any feelings towards them. Especially someone
before shaking my
stayed married to her because of Noah. My
the reason I couldn’t develop any
not
love each other. Nine years couldn’t change the
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you feel so strongly about her dating Ethan?”
you! I wouldn’t have cared if she
fishy with that cop”
it was only making me more pissed. I
he doesn’t. Instead he has this stupid
have feelings for
was wrong. We treated her horribly for it, but what if she wasn’t lying when she said she was drunk? What if she was
“That’s impossible”
it? We all wanted you with Emma. We’ll except for Ava.
blame the girl who had
accept that both of you had
frozen. What the fuck had gotten
takes out his phone
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