Ex-Husband's Regret

Chapter 102

Her side of the story
Mom collapses in the chair after my admission. The heartbroken look in her eyes was undoing

me. The disappointed look she gave me nearly made me crumble on the spot.
Travis, who had been holding me, lets go as if I had burned him. He backs away from me slowly

until he’s a few feet away.

I know the rest had varying degrees of shock, but they didn’t matter to me right now. Not when

my family was looking at me like they didn’t know me. Like I was a stranger.

“Please tell me you’re playing a sick joke on me,” Mom pleads. “Tell me you didn’t have a child and

kept him hidden from us all these years.”

I want to lie to them just so the heartbroken and disappointed look in their eyes will disappear. I

know that I can no longer do that. There was no hiding from this. There was no more running from

the truth.

“I’m sorry. So sorry,” I cry as I stumble towards her. “I wanted to tell you, but I was so ashamed.”

I go to take her hand, but she flinches and pulls it away.

This is what I’ve been so afraid of. Ava was right. I was the perfect daughter. The one who never

made any mistakes.

The one that thought things through before, except for that one time. Now their image of me is

tarnished. Now they know that I am just like them. Human. The Ace card I had over Ava was gone. 2

I was in the same boat as Ava. I made mistakes that are now hunting me. Sleeping with Calvin

remains the greatest mistak

y life.

“H–How did this happen? When did it happen…did dad now?” Travis asks as he paces, frustration

clear in his steps.

“Dad didn’t know. No one except Calvin and Molly knew.” I look at the ground, unable to face the

look on my mom’s face.

“Start from the beginning and don’t leave a single thing out. I want to know why the hell you’ve

kept my grandson a secret from his family,” Mom growls, her eyes turning fierce.

I didn’t want to rehash the past, but at this point, I don’t think I had any choice. If I didn’t want

them to be even madder than they were right now, then I had to spill it.

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“When Rowan married Ava, I was broken I tried not to let it show. Tried to make you, dad, and

Travis believe I was okay because you were all so worried about me. I felt like I was drowning,

exploded, and I’d been left with nothing. When I

any of you,

I did back then

with Ava.

and I didn’t attend

She started pushing, and when

you to know how I was struggling. I didn’t want

how tough things were for

I had so much bitterness

would have been ecstatic. It

had been going through

were going well after that. Molly became my anchor. My grades were

think about Rowan every second.” I take a

out we went to the same

assignment partner.” 2

him. After all, we

the obsession he had for me in high

of him. We co–existed. He stayed out of my way and I

I wanted to stop, but now more

said, things were going well for some time. They

me to let me

love with his son at first

I try to breathe through

so fucking hard.

angry. Angry at myself for turning down Rowan’s proposal, angry

getting drunk and sleeping with Ava,

loved and angry

intake of air. I don’t need to turn to know that it is

around Noah because if everything had gone the way I

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him like he hurt me I knew he always disliked Calvin for the way he crushed on me, so that night I approached Calvin and seduced him I knew word would probably get back to Rowan, and that would have hurt him. That’s why I slept with Calvin that night, because I counted on Rowan’s friend telling him. He would have been so hurt, I would have gotten my revenge, and maybe

lost my virginity. I was saving it for Rowan

at the man I loved. I told Calvin that it was a mistake and that he

been wrong. I hadn’t planned for what was to come next. What destiny

to ignoring each other like the other didn’t exist, that is, until my period was late. A cheap

believed that one day Rowan and I would get back together. I didn’t want an unwanted baby

of my mistake to always

pill the morning

everything was new to me. To put

s–sex so I

really enough to get me pregnant. Looking

aused me to get one, but like I said, I was so ashamed, I

anyone to know.”

that during all the years you dated Rowan, you never slept

virgin?” Travis asks in

Rowan wasn’t. Before we started dating, which

anything that walked and had a vagina. When I’d told

to wait till I was ready. My biggest regret was holding

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was still a virgin. Anyway,” 1

child and I wanted to

abortion?” Mom asks, her voice ringing with horror and

but nod my head. “Calvin threatened to tell you and dad if I

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