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

the truth about how I came

hesitate and my curiosity gets stronger. Travis has

this nervous in front of me

out already! I don’t have all day” I snap

why I even gave him a chance to speak. I should have called the

on his sorry ass.

and Theo” he finally

straining to hear him.

“About what?”

Making almost all investors who are in their contact

brokenly. “The company is sinking, Ava. We are losing investors,

and funds” (2

thought mom and

after the Sharps for what they did

is anything that Travis loves more than anything, it’s that company. It was and is

here, basically begging me to help him means

talking to me is the

have to know I don’t really care if that company sinks

my ches

Like he has been burning both ends

Then again, I told her never to speak

Travis in my presence.

I beg you.

that word has my hackles up. Bringing

family, Travis? If I remember correctly you cut me off. You said

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

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off. I don’t want to hear a thing from his

you treated

tore my heart to pieces because I hurt you

What about the times you said I deserved the pain

mother ignored me like I didn’t matter? What

still

But what is there to say anyway? He knows the truth. He

the rest I was nothing but an unwanted nuisance. One

anything to get

me, if you didn’t consider me your family back then, what makes you think I’ll

you are trying to do by playing the

the difference between us. Travis

by just seeing them you could guess that they’re

any of them. That should have been the first clue that I wasn’t one

cared about me. The

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

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