Ex-Husband's Regret

Chapter 65

65 Heart to heart

“Ava can we please talk?” mother pleads when I move to leave.

1 stare at her, not sure what she wanted. What was there to talk about? Hasn’t everything already

been said and done?

“There isn’t anything for us to talk about, Mother” I insist.

Looking back, I see now how I made a distinction when it came to her and father. While Emma and Travis referred to them as mom and dad, to me they were Father and Mother. Clean, cut and

completely impersonal.

I never truly acknowledged them as my parents, because deep down I just knew. Parents don’t hate their children. Parents don’t neglect their child and treat them like shit. I made what I called them impersonal because on a spiritual level, I didn’t consider them my parents.

“Please, I beg you” she pleads with tears in her eyes.

It was so strange looking at her with tears in her eyes. Her face flushed and soft. This is a look I’ve never seen her direct at me. Her face was always in a frown. She always looked at me with a certain cold indifference that was specifically targeted at me.

“How about you show me to our table as they talk?” Martha, Rowan’s mom asks Corrine while

cutting off what I was about to say.

Corrine looks skeptical. Like she didn’t want to leave me. After all, it was known that the Sharp family weren’t my biggest fan even though I was apparently their daughter.

Martha doesn’t give Corrine a chance. Instead she links their hands and pulls her away in the

opposite direction.

I sigh and take my seat. “Let’s just get this over with, looks like you won’t leave me alone until

piece, so do it now before

adore this woman back in my younger days. When I was around five

when I realized that she didn’t feel the same way. It changed when

if I was more of a

my hands in hers. I pull them away. Not

I didn’t want her near me. The part of me that had longed for such

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you’ll ever

of her apologizing to me, then pulling me into her arms. I used to crave it. Pray for it. Hope for the day

loved me, loved us, but we gave you nothing but scorn. I wish more than

before continuing.

never saw your value. Never acknowledged that you’re the best daughter anyone can have. It took almost losing you to realize how

on crying. If I was my old self, then

her tears meant absolutely

than twenty five years of hurting. It can’t be erased by a few drops of tears. It just doesn’t work like that. It

cut to the crap okay? If this is about the threat my mother made on your company, we can discuss it as adults. There is no need for you

emotionlessly.

don’t care. She’s been hurting me for years. This was nothing compared to

wasn’t sure why she looked hurt. I was sure that the only reason she was here

save their

that you would think that of me. That you would think that the only reason I was apologizing was so I could save the company. Then

own actions that you find me

couldn’t tell she was the same

me like I didnt matter.

here as she pours out her heart is a

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