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,

been left with nothing. When I went back to

you, but I

on the grass, feeling as small as I did back then when I learned that

with Ava.

I didn’t eat, I didn’t sleep, and I

this. She started pushing, and when I

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

tough

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

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

discovered she had been going through

after that. Molly became my anchor. My grades were

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

Calvin again. It turns out we went to the same

assignment partner.” 2

After all, we weren’t friends. I tolerated

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

of him. We co–existed. He stayed out of

I wanted to stop, but now more than ever,

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

is, until the night m alled me to let me know that Ava had given

son at first sight. Everything around me crumbled, and all the

came to the surface.” I try to breathe through

so fucking hard.

Angry at myself for

and sleeping with Ava, angry at Ava for getting pregnant

angry at

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

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

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word would probably get back to Rowan, and that would

virginity. I was saving it for Rowan and in the end

of me to sleep with a guy I didn’t 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 thought that was that. That it was a terrible one–night stand and that would

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

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

heart, I believed that one day Rowan and

to always

get an emergency pill the morning after?”

was new to me.

the–the first time I’ve ever h–had s–sex so I

I assumed tha‘ n’t really enough to get

one, but like I

anyone to know.”

during all the years

a virgin?” Travis asks in

knew Rowan wasn’t. Before we started dating, which was

vagina. When I’d

wait till I was ready. My biggest regret was holding out on

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

I wanted to get rid of it,

asks, her voice

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

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