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?”
is it that no one saw what I saw. No one realized
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that” I seethed. “There is just something about the man
none of you
start pacing my home office. My fury burning so close to the surface. I was almost losing it. First I hear that Emma threatened
made googly eyes at
see a fucking thing. What the hell was wrong with her? She’s the most
question anything.
talking about?” he asks giving me
sit
explain it, but there is just something I
doesn’t feel
I can’t ignore
investigating him.
and when he does, I feel like punching the crap out of
that you’re jealous of
bellow. “Why the hell would I be jealous of him?
for Ava, remember?”
be jealous when it comes to Ava. She is my
looking after
fucking years,
develop any feelings towards them. Especially someone who isn’t
him in shock, before shaking my
I stayed married to her because of Noah. My
that. That’s the reason I couldn’t develop
had completely lost his fucking mind. It’s not unusual for people to stay married even
change the
the stunt she pulled to
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explain to me why you feel so strongly about
cared if she
fishy with that cop”
only making me more pissed. I thought at least
looks like he doesn’t. Instead he has this stupid
have feelings for
for it, but what if she wasn’t lying when she said she
“That’s impossible”
you with Emma. We’ll except for Ava. After
to blame. It was easier to blame the girl who had been obsessed with you for years
accept that both of you had made a mistake”
frozen.
watch as he takes out his phone and dials
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