Ex-Husband's Regret

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

any of you, but I fell into

as I did back then when I learned that

with Ava.

and I didn’t attend classes.

pushing, and when I refused to get better, she

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

tough things

memory. I had so much bitterness and resentment towards

she ever found out how far I’d fallen, she would

she had been going through her

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

second.” I take

again. It turns out we went to the same Uni and he was also

assignment partner.” 2

him. After all, we weren’t friends. I tolerated him because he was

he didn’t show any remnants of the obsession he had for me in

being weary of him. We co–existed. He stayed out of my way

now more than ever,

well for some time. They weren’t perfect, but they were

the night m alled me to let me know

son at first

to the surface.” I try to breathe through

so fucking hard.

was in pain, and I was really angry. Angry at myself for turning down Rowan’s proposal, angry

sleeping with Ava, angry at Ava for getting

and angry at the baby

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

had gone the way I

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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

for Rowan and in

even like just to get back at the man I loved. I told Calvin that it was a mistake and that he should forget about what happened between us. I snuck out of his room, and I

wrong. I hadn’t planned for what

that is, until my period was late. A cheap test. and later, a doctor’s appointment confirmed that I was

the worst news I’ve ever received. Deep in my heart, I believed that one day Rowan and I would get back together. I

to

an emergency pill the morning after?” mom

being a complete mess, everything was new to me. To put it plainly, I was naive.

I’ve ever h–had s–sex so I didn’t really

so I assumed tha‘ n’t really enough to get me pregnant. Looking back,

she would have aused me to get one, but like

anyone to know.”

that during all the

virgin?” Travis asks

Before we started dating,

that walked and had a vagina. When

was ready. My biggest

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releases a groan uncomfortably “Can we not talk about

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a virgin. Anyway,” 1 paused. “I told

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

an abortion?” Mom asks, her voice ringing

couldn’t do anything, but nod my head. “Calvin threatened to