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 I came

my curiosity gets stronger. Travis has

him this nervous in front of me

day” I snap after a few minutes of him

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

on his sorry ass.

Nora and Theo” he finally speaks, but it was so low I had

straining to hear him.

“About what?”

Corp. They’ve gone after us. Making almost all investors who are in their contact to

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

and funds” (2

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

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

Travis loves more than anything,

me to help him means he has

means he has tried everything and talking to me is the last and only

really care if that company sinks or not”

my ches

Like he has been burning both

about this to me. Then

Travis in my presence.

Ava. I beg you.

my hackles up.

scoff. “How are we family, Travis? If I remember correctly you

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

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“Ava.*

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him off. I don’t want to

Emma’s side, every time you treated me like trash.

heart to pieces because I

said I deserved the pain I was going

like I didn’t matter? What about all the time

still

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

and the rest I was nothing

anything to get rid

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

are trying to do by playing the family card

pierce his. I used to note the difference

seeing them you could guess that they’re related.

have been the first clue that

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

can use me, but I won’t let you. Go

push him away and slam the door hard. I lean against it breathing hard. Its quiet for