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,

left

of you, but I fell into

as I

with Ava.

sleep, and

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

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

out how tough things were for

had so much bitterness and resentment towards Ava

she ever found out how far I’d fallen, she would have been ecstatic. It was

she had been

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

or think about Rowan every second.” I take

I met Calvin again. It turns out we

assignment partner.” 2

we weren’t friends. I tolerated him because he

remnants of the obsession

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

wanted to stop, but now more than ever,

for some time. They weren’t perfect,

me know that Ava had given birth to a baby boy

with his son at first sight. Everything around

been hiding came to the surface.” I try to breathe through

so fucking hard.

I was really angry. Angry at myself

drunk and sleeping with Ava, angry at

angry

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

Noah because if everything had gone the way I wanted it to, then he would

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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

was saving it for Rowan and in the end I gave it to the guy

that it was a mistake and that he should forget about what happened between us. I snuck out of

planned for what was

the other didn’t exist, that is, until my period was

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

to always

pill the morning after?” mom

was new to me. To

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

assumed tha‘ n’t really enough to get

get one, but like

anyone to know.”

during all the

still a virgin?” Travis asks in

knew Rowan wasn’t. Before we started dating,

anything that walked and had a vagina. When I’d told him I wasn’t

was ready. My biggest regret was

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uncomfortably “Can we not talk

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was still a virgin. Anyway,” 1 paused. “I told

the child and I wanted to get rid of it,

an abortion?” Mom asks, her

do anything, but nod my head. “Calvin threatened to tell

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