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

mother revealed the truth about how

him hesitate and my curiosity gets stronger. Travis has always been arrogant

this nervous in front of me

day” I snap after a

was starting to question why I even gave him a chance to

on his sorry ass.

could talk to Nora and Theo” he finally speaks, but it was

straining to hear him.

“About what?”

They’ve gone after us. Making almost all investors who

“The company is sinking, Ava. We

and funds” (2

were being honest, I thought mom and dad’s threat was just that, a threat. I didn’t

they would actually go after the Sharps for

than anything, it’s that company. It was and

joy. To have him here, basically begging me to help

has tried everything and talking to me is the

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

my ches

and worn out. Like he has been burning both ends

mentioned anything about this to me. Then

Travis in my presence.

I beg you. We’re

hackles up. Bringing the

scoff. “How are we family, Travis? If I remember correctly you cut me off. You said

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

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“Ava.*

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cut him off. I don’t want to hear a thing

every time you treated me like trash. Every

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

times you said I deserved the pain I was

and mother ignored me like I didn’t matter? What about all the time you all shunned

I still your

But what is there to say anyway? He knows

and the rest I was nothing but an

do anything to get rid

consider me your family back then, what makes

are trying to do by playing the family card with me

pierce his. I used to note the difference between us.

you could guess that they’re

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

cared about me. The only reason you’re here is because you

I won’t let you. Go home, Travis and

him away and slam the door hard.