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 I

gets stronger. Travis has always been arrogant and

this nervous in front of me was

don’t have all day” I snap after

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

on his sorry ass.

Nora and Theo” he finally speaks, but it was

straining to hear him.

“About what?”

us. Making almost all investors who are in

is sinking, Ava.

and funds” (2

mom and dad’s threat was just that, a

the Sharps for what

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

have him here, basically begging me to help him means

talking to me is

care if that company sinks or not” I

my ches

he

Then again,

Travis in my presence.

Ava. I beg you. We’re

word has my hackles up. Bringing the familiar

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

sister

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“Ava.*

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don’t want to

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

my heart to pieces because I hurt you precious sister,

I deserved the pain I was going

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

I still

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

family back then. To him and the rest I was nothing but an unwanted

anything to get

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

now? Whatever you are trying to do by playing the

used to note the difference between us. Travis and Emma didn’t

guess that they’re related. I on the other hand

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

The only reason you’re here is because

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

him away and slam the door hard. I