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?”

Why is it that no one saw what I saw.

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I seethed. “There is just something about the man

none of you see

start pacing my home office. My fury burning so close to the surface. I was almost losing it. First I hear that Emma threatened Noah and that Travis did

made googly

she couldn’t see a fucking thing. What the hell was wrong with her?

question anything.

talking about?” he asks giving me his

I just couldn’t sit down

explain it, but there is

doesn’t feel right

fucking sense, but I can’t ignore the

investigating him.

while and when he does, I feel like punching

be that

bellow. “Why the hell would I be jealous of him? I don’t have any fucking

for Ava, remember?”

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

I’m looking after

nine fucking years, it’s hard

not develop any feelings towards them. Especially someone

before shaking my head. “There’s no

married to her because of Noah. My heart always belonged

reason I couldn’t develop any feelings

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

don’t love each other. Nine years couldn’t change the fact that I wasn’t

to get me to

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to me why you feel so

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

fishy with that cop”

round in circles and it was only

he doesn’t. Instead he has this stupid

feelings for Ava and that

first to admit that what Ava did nine years ago was wrong. We treated her horribly for it, but what if she wasn’t

“That’s impossible”

wanted you with Emma. We’ll except for Ava.

the girl who had

that both of you had

frozen. What the fuck had

watch as he takes out his phone and dials

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