Ex-Husband's Regret

Anita
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Ava

I sat at a private booth enjoying a piece of cake. Noah was spending the night at Rowan’s so I was

child free tonight.

I was feeling good for some reason. In that good feeling, I decided to grab something to eat. I was in the mood for some comfort food. That’s why I was currently here eating dessert like I’ve been

starved for days.

My visit to prison was eventful. I had fully expected Ethan to tell me he doesn’t want the baby. Instead I got more than I had bargained for.

His confession of love left me feeling empty in a way. He had to understand that it was too late now. I wouldn’t ever think about being with him. He tried killing me for heaven’s sake! If I go back

to him, what does that say about me?

I wasn’t cruel enough to deny him his rights as a father. Even if I didn’t want to see him personally. I could always ask Nora to take the baby to him. That was the furthest I was willing to go. The biggest effort I was willing to make when it came to Ethan. Anything beyond that would

be downright stupid.

I decided that I was done with men. I mean no good can come out of chasing love. I wanted love from two men and what I got was heartbreak and pain.

It was time for me to give up on love, because the way I see it, it doesn’t want me. It never has. I am learning to make peace with that. Now I was going to focus on being my best version. Focus on

being the best mother.

I push another piece of cake in my mouth and moan. It felt like heaven as the taste explodes in

my mouth.

“Aren’t you afraid you’ll get fat? I mean you already are, but I fear you will get fatter” the shrill

voice makes me snap my eyes open.

I groan when I open my eyes and find Anita staring at me with a mean look. Behind her were

some of her co–workers. They laugh when they hear her insulting me, but I honestly don’t care.

Right now they were all insignificant.

She was one of Rowan’s financial advisors and as you can tell, she doesn’t like me. She and

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never really understood where their hate came from Sure I was married to Rowan. Who they both wanted, but

bitch” she screeches when I continue to

mean I have to listen to a fucking word you say” I respond

a glass of

I always kept quiet when she would say awful things to me. I was so desperate to please Rowan, to get him to like me, that I let his workers walk all over me.

that he didn’t know.

you’re apparently rich?” she

getting on

are so insecure that they

spreading their legs.

dies down. “I’m

lunge at me, but I stand up and glare

these stupid idiots walk over

narrowing in slits.”

I fucking swear you won’t like what

her, before fixing her green eyes

humiliate me. The

walks towards

if that’s how you

on

to tell Rowan is that you’ve been rude to me and he will blow up

me bow down. I desperately didn’t want

let her humiliate me. She would

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fact, why don’t you take your phone out right now and call

“You think I won’t?”

counting on you doing it”

slowly, the self–esteem I thought I had lost after Ethan betrayed me was starting to come back. Never will I allow a man to make me hit

here?” a

weren’t friends, more like acquaintances or business partner. Her father’s construction firm is the one I use when building Hope Houses. She is the owner of this restaurant. The construction firm

but the restaurants

kick her out” Anita rushes to speak. “We were just minding our own business when she

Folding my hands across my chest as I watch her

that we know each other. I was waiting for the show to start. Unlike Rowan,

she asks,

I thought that no one

when business was involved.

nods her head. She gives her friends a small signal and they all agree with her. What