Ex-Husband's Regret

Chapter 84

My choice
Rowan

I can’t explain the fear I felt when I saw the bastard pointing a gun at her head. She was shaking,

and tears were falling down her face. I heard as she pleaded with him to spare her, but I knew he

wouldn’t.

When she closed her eyes. As if accepting her fate. It nearly brought me to my fucking knees. If it

wasn’t for the fact that I knew she was tired, I would have spared the man just so I could give him

my own personal version of torture.

“She needs a doctor, Rowan” she says in a small voice as I kneel down before her.

I had already texted Gabe. The ambulance would be here in minutes. It’s not that I didn’t care for

Emma; I did. I just cared for Ava more. (2)

I take her face gently into my hands. Her cheek was swollen, and so was her eye. It had already bruised, and her lip was split.

My face hardened at the thought of someone laying their hands on her.

“Who hit you? Was it Ronny” I ask through clenched teeth.

She winces when I run my hand down her bruised cheek. Fuck! Her pain made my heart constrict.

I wanted nothing more than to kill the bastard who hurt her.

“It doesn’t matter… We need to get Emma to a hospital” she says as she begins to stand up.

I push her down gently and continue to inspect her. Totally ignoring what she said. Her wrists were bleeding, and her ankles were swollen and bruised.

The more I took in her wounds, the angrier I got. She shouldn’t have to go through this. Especially not when she was fucking pregnant.

“Rowan, are you not listening to me” Her tone is exasperated, and I know if it weren’t for the fact that she was tired and hurt, she would have thrown a few choice words at me.

“I’m listening, and the ambulance will be here.” I answer. “Now tell me who hurt you.”

She lets out a deep long breath. Sagging in relief against the car

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It was one of Ronny’s men. He hit me when I talked back at him” she tells me tiredly.

“Give me a facial description”

I was going to find the bastard. No one. I mean, no one gets away with hurting Ava. He was going

to regret the day he was fucking born.

It doesn’t matter. When I escaped, he found us first. I kneed him in the balls, then shot both his

thighs

I can’t help the small smile that forms on my lips. I liked this side of Ava. Loved that she was no

longer willing to take crap from anyone.

Before I could ask why she thought escaping was a good idea, we heard the sirens, shouts, and

shots. Gabe, Travis, and the paramedic reach us moments later.

The paramedics take Emma from Ava’s lap before placing her on a stretcher.

happened?” one

see Ava hesitate a little

shot while we were trying to escape. I tried

and finally lost–consciousness.” Her eyes

going to be alright?” she asked, her

things I’ve come to love about her. Emma has been nothing

but that d

her. She was a fucking

has taken me this long to

a bit weak, but she’ll be okay once we get her to a

They wheel her away.

okay, Ava?” Travis asks her. The concern in his eyes

she struggles to get up. “Go,

she needs you

kiss her cheeks. I

that she doesn’t push him away. Otherwise,

give Gabe

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after watching

please” she answers, looking at

dow, and pick her up. Hugging her close to

being carried” Her argument lacks her normal fire backing it

me. It felt right with her in my arms like this. Like everything in the fucking universe was aligning itself. If

my car, I can’t help but wonder. I’ve never allowed myself to be this close to her. To hold her, hug her or kiss her. I always held a part of myself hidden from her. So it makes me wonder if, had I allowed myself, would it have felt like this? Like she was

my soul?

just getting to my car when Brian stops

I growl at him. Couldn’t he fucking

get most of the Reapers,

news.

to pound someone. The fact that he keeps evading us makes

As long as he was still out there, none of those I care about would be

find him” I

front seat. Buckling her up, I

the hospital.

are we going?” she

to get checked. Make sure you and the baby

seat. It doesn’t take us long to get to the hospital. By the time we

before waking her up. I didn’t mind carrying her, but I

to

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say when she opens her

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arms and carry her in. As soon

worry sir, we’ll take care of her and call you immediately we have news” they assure me when I refuse to

slowly put her down on

she tells me before

I don’t say

the hospital.

call my parents to check up on Noah. The moment I got the call from Ronny, I asked them to

Travis and Kate.

news?” I ask

“Not yet” Travis answers.

doing? Where is she?” Kate asks with

for checkup just to make sure everything is fine” I tell

in silence after that. Being here reminds me of everything that happened after James died. It reminded me of how I was overcome with

nine years.

had gone back in time. Back to the time when she meant the world to

also reminded me of when Ava got shot. She had been standing right next to me, yet I had dived for Emma instead. Ava became different after that event. It’s like the Ava we knew had died and a new one

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