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 of

see Ava hesitate a

I tried to stop the bleeding as best as

finally lost–consciousness.” Her eyes were

to be alright?” she asked, her voice full

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

but that d

her. She was a

taken me this long to figure that

but she’ll be okay once we

They wheel her away.

Ava?” Travis asks her.

she

she needs

before bending down to kiss her cheeks. I know it’s from

push him away. Otherwise, her reception would have been

Gabe the signal

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watching

answers, looking at me

Hugging her close to my chest, I

up, not being carried” Her argument lacks her normal fire backing it up. It goes

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

to her. To hold her, hug her or kiss her. I always held a part of myself hidden from her. So it makes

my soul?

my

fucking see that I was carrying

most of the Reapers, but Reaper

news.

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

he was still out there, none of those

fucking find him” I snap before

get to my car and gently drop Ava in the front seat. Buckling her up, I get in

the hospital.

are we going?”

checked. Make sure you and

acceptance before leaning back against the seat. It doesn’t take us long to get to the hospital. By

park my car before waking her up. I didn’t mind carrying her, but I also

her to answer some

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say when she

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she can jump down. I take her into my arms and carry her in. As soon as the nurses notice us, they drag a

we’ll take care of her and call you immediately we

slowly put her

my parents” she tells me before they wheel her

exactly that. I don’t say

the hospital.

I asked them to pick him up. Once I make

Travis and Kate.

news?” I ask

“Not yet” Travis answers.

Where is

to make sure everything is fine” I tell

here reminds me of everything that happened after James died. It reminded me of how I was overcome with emotion after seeing Emma

nine years.

to the time when she meant the world

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 had been born. I’ll never

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