Ex-Husband's Regret

Kidnapped again
Today I wasn’t in the best of moods. Mainly because Noah was still mad at me for kicking Rowan out I thought I had covered things up well. It turns out that he could see past my bullshit.

At times like this, I wish that we hadn’t pretended in front of Noah. I know that we thought we were protecting him. That we were giving him a happy childhood. All we did was deceive him.

Now he has it in his head that we were once in love and that we can be again.

I don’t know how to tell him the truth without breaking his little heart. I don’t know how to tell

him that everything he believes about me and Rowan is a lie.

My biggest fear is that he’ll hate us for lying to him if the truth comes out. Then again we can’t continue like this. We can’t continue with him believing that there is a chance for me and Rowan.

I sigh and get out of bed. I had gone back to sleep after Noah left for school. As the days progress,

the bigger I get and the more tired I feel.

Dragging my feet, I head to the bathroom and take a shower. It still doesn’t take away the fatigue

from my bones. Deciding on a dress, I put on a white spaghetti strap dress with blue flowers on it.

It reached just above my knees and showed my belly. Since my parents now knew the truth about

my pregnancy, it was time to stop hiding it.

Not in the mood to do my makeup, I opt for just concealer to cover up my dark under eyes.

I leave my room and get downstairs just as my doorbell rings.

I was really not in the mood to see or talk to anyone. Not when I was feeling like shit.

I open my front door and wish that I hadn’t. Travis was standing on my door step looking

disheveled. (1

I go to close the door, but he stops it before I can slam it on his face.

“Please Ava” he begs tiredly.

“What do you want?” I ask, my voice cold even to my own ears.

It was really funny how much my voice automatically changes nowadays. I don’t even put any

effort in it. It just grows cold and unattached. As if I was speaking to a total stranger.

“Can I come in?” he asks.

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“Fuck No! Speak what you came here to say and leave”

I would be lying if I said I wasn’t curious about why he was here. The last time I saw Travis was

truth about how

him hesitate and my curiosity gets stronger.

in

don’t have all day” I snap after a few minutes of him being

gave him a chance to speak.

on his sorry ass.

Nora and Theo” he finally speaks,

straining to hear him.

“About what?”

Making almost all

he says brokenly. “The company is sinking, Ava. We are

and funds” (2

were being honest, I thought mom and dad’s threat was

they would actually go after the Sharps for what they did to

Travis loves more than anything,

him here, basically begging me to help him means

he has tried everything and talking to me is the last

to know I don’t really care if that company sinks or not” I state, folding

my ches

tired and worn out. Like he has been burning both

anything about this to me. Then again,

Travis in my presence.

I beg you.

hackles

we family, Travis? If I

renounced me as your sister years ago. Then you went and proved just

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“Ava.*

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want to hear a thing from his

side, every time you treated me like trash. Every fucking

when Rowan tore my heart to pieces because I hurt you precious sister,

the times you said I deserved

like I didn’t matter? What about all

I still

doesn’t say anything. But what is there to say anyway?

rest I was nothing but an

anything to get

me your family back then, what makes you think

you are trying to do by playing the

note the difference between us.

seeing them you could guess that they’re related. I

of them. That should have been the first clue that I

honest, you’ve never cared about me. The only reason you’re here is because

use me, but I won’t let you. Go home, Travis and don’t ever darken

that, I push him away and slam the door hard. I lean against it