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

now before I

back in my younger days.

the same way. It changed

was more of a burden,

before taking my hands in hers. I

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

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you’ll ever know” she whispers, folding into

keep quiet. I always imagined this moment. Always day dreamed of her apologizing to me, then pulling me into her arms. I used to crave it. Pray for it. Hope for the day to come. Now that it’s here, the joy I thought I

embracing you, I pushed you away. You loved me, loved us, but we gave you nothing but scorn. I wish more than

before continuing.

acknowledged that you’re the best daughter anyone can have. It took almost losing you

was full on crying. If I was my old self, then her

tears meant absolutely nothing to

More than twenty five years of hurting. It can’t be erased by a few drops of tears. It

about the threat my mother made on your company, we can discuss it as adults. There is no need for you to try and sweeten me up, that shit won’t work. Instead of all the drama, why don’t you tell me the real reason you wanted us

emotionlessly.

This was nothing compared to what I had to endure at her hands and

sure that the only reason she

save their

think that of me. That you would think that the only reason I was

of my own actions that

now, you couldn’t tell she was the same woman

treat me like I didnt matter. It was so weird. We’ve never had

she pours out her heart is a bit

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