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,

had exploded, and I’d been left with nothing. When I went back to school,

you, but

I did back then when

with Ava.

didn’t sleep, and

Molly noticed this. She started pushing, and when I refused

you to know how I

out how tough

was lost in memory. I had so much bitterness and resentment towards Ava back

she would have been ecstatic. It

been going through her own kind of

that. Molly became my anchor. My grades

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

we

assignment partner.” 2

After all, we weren’t friends. I tolerated

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

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

I wanted to stop, but now more than ever, I knew they wouldn’t let

well for some time.

me

Rowan fell in love with his son at first sight.

try to breathe through the pain of the memories,

so fucking hard.

really angry. Angry at

for getting drunk and sleeping with Ava,

loved and angry at the baby

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

gone the way I wanted it to, then he

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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 then it would no

tell them, but it’s also how I lost my virginity. I was saving it for Rowan and in the

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 thought that was that. That it was a terrible one–night

I been wrong. I hadn’t planned for what was

until my period was late. A cheap test.

had been the worst news I’ve ever received. Deep in my heart, I believed that one day Rowan and I would get back together. I didn’t want an unwanted baby

mistake to always be in my

pill the morning after?” mom asks, making me

was new to me. To put it plainly, I was naive.

ever h–had s–sex so I

tha‘ n’t really enough to get me

to get one, but like I said, I

anyone to know.”

to tell me that during all the years you

virgin?”

started dating, which was

and had a vagina. When I’d told him

to wait till I was ready. My biggest regret

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question, yes I was still a virgin. Anyway,” 1

the child and I wanted to

her voice

threatened to tell you and dad if

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