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 them

Ava hesitate

shot while we were trying to escape. I tried to stop the bleeding as best as I

and finally lost–consciousness.”

be alright?” she asked, her voice full

one of the things I’ve come to love

but that d

about her. She was a fucking angel, and

has taken me this long to figure that

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

They wheel her away.

Travis asks her. The concern in his

as she struggles to get up. “Go, be with

needs you

his head before bending down to kiss her

him away. Otherwise, her reception would have been entirely

I give Gabe the signal to

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after watching her struggle to

please” she answers,

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

carried” Her argument lacks her normal fire backing it up. It goes to show just how worn out

Just pull her 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 stay like

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

my soul?

my car

him. Couldn’t he fucking see

the Reapers, but Reaper himself escaped” he says,

news.

me want to pound someone. The fact

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

him” I

gently drop Ava in the front seat. Buckling her up, I get in

the hospital.

are we going?”

checked. Make sure you

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

I didn’t mind carrying her, but I also know that

to answer some

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

we’ll take care of her and call you immediately we have news” they assure me when

I slowly put her down on the

tells me before

do exactly that. I don’t say a

the hospital.

asked them to pick him up. Once I make sure that he’s safe

Travis and Kate.

news?” I ask

“Not yet” Travis answers.

Where is she?” Kate asks with

in for checkup just to make

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

nine years.

Back to the time when she meant the world to me. I had been so

to me, yet I had dived for Emma instead. Ava became different after that

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