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.

one of

hesitate

to escape. I tried to

lost–consciousness.” Her eyes were trained on

she

to love about

but that d

was a fucking

has taken me this long to figure

pulse is a bit weak, but she’ll be okay once

They wheel her away.

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

she struggles to get up. “Go, be

she needs

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

push him away. Otherwise,

I give Gabe the signal to follow

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watching her struggle to get

please” she answers, looking

bend dow, and pick her up. Hugging her close to my chest, I begin

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

like this. Like everything in the fucking universe was aligning itself. If

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

my soul?

my car when

at him. Couldn’t he fucking see that I was

to get most of the Reapers,

news.

want to pound someone. The fact that he keeps

still out there, none of

fucking find him” I snap before

front seat. Buckling her

the hospital.

we going?”

get checked. Make sure

seat. It doesn’t take us long to

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

her to answer

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here” I say when she opens her beautiful

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arms and carry her in. As soon as the nurses notice us, they drag a wheel chair towards

and call you immediately we have news” they assure me

her down on the

parents” she tells me before

I do exactly that. I don’t

the hospital.

moment I got the call from Ronny, I asked them to pick him

Travis and Kate.

news?” I

“Not yet” Travis answers.

doing? Where is she?” Kate

for checkup just to make sure everything is fine” I

Being here reminds me of everything that happened after James died. It reminded me

nine years.

the time when she

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 forget

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