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,

and I’d been left with nothing. When I went back to

of you, but I

as I did back then when I learned

with Ava.

away. I didn’t eat, I didn’t sleep, and I didn’t attend classes. In fact, I

noticed this. She started pushing, and when I refused to get

guys to let you know. I didn’t want you

out how tough

was lost in memory. I had so much

far I’d fallen, she would have been ecstatic. It was probably a year and

discovered she had been going through her own kind of

going well after that. Molly became

constantly cry or think about Rowan every second.” I take a deep breath

we went to the same Uni

assignment partner.” 2

we weren’t friends. I

didn’t show any remnants of the obsession he had

out of my way and I stayed out

to stop, but now more than ever, I knew they

some time. They weren’t

is, until the night m alled me to let me know that Ava had given birth to a baby boy

Rowan fell in love with his son at first sight. Everything around

been hiding came to the surface.” I try to breathe through the pain of the memories,

so fucking hard.

Angry at myself for turning down Rowan’s

drunk and sleeping with Ava,

angry

turn to know

around Noah because if everything had gone the way I

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knew word would probably get back to Rowan, and that would have hurt him. That’s why I slept with

for Rowan and in the

was a mistake and that he should forget

hadn’t planned for what was

my period was late. A cheap test. and

Deep in my heart, I believed that one day Rowan and

mistake to

an emergency pill the morning after?”

complete mess, everything was new to me. To

ever h–had s–sex so I didn’t really know that I should have. It was

I assumed tha‘ n’t really enough to

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

anyone to know.”

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

still a virgin?” Travis

dating, which was at seventeen, he’d previously

had a vagina. When I’d told him I wasn’t ready,

till I was ready. My

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still a virgin. Anyway,” 1 paused.

didn’t want the child and I wanted to get rid

Mom asks, her voice ringing

head. “Calvin threatened to tell you and

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