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,

I’d been left with

any of you, but I

as small as I

with Ava.

sleep, and I didn’t attend classes. In fact, I rarely left

started pushing, and when

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

out how tough things were for

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

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

later that I discovered she had been going

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

Rowan every second.” I take a deep breath

again. It turns out we went to the

assignment partner.” 2

didn’t really talk to him. After all, we weren’t friends.

remnants of the obsession he

He stayed out of my way and I stayed out of

stop, but now more than ever,

for some time. They weren’t perfect,

m alled me to let me know that Ava had given birth to a baby

love with his son at first sight. Everything around me crumbled, and all

to breathe through the pain of

so fucking hard.

was really angry. Angry at myself for turning down Rowan’s proposal,

and sleeping with Ava, angry at Ava

and angry at the baby

need to turn

around Noah because if everything had gone the way

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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

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

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

I hadn’t planned for what

to ignoring each other like the other didn’t exist, that is, until my period was late. A cheap test. and later, a doctor’s appointment

Deep in my heart, I believed that one day Rowan and I would get back together. I didn’t want an unwanted baby

of my mistake to always be in my

morning after?”

being a complete mess, everything was new to me. To

s–sex so I didn’t really know that I should

enough to get me pregnant.

would have aused me to get one, but

anyone to know.”

that during all the years you dated Rowan,

virgin?” Travis

started dating, which

a vagina. When I’d told him

We planned to wait till I was ready. My biggest regret

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groan uncomfortably “Can we not talk about this?

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still a virgin. Anyway,”

want the child and I wanted to get rid of

an abortion?” Mom asks, her voice ringing with

couldn’t do anything, but nod my head. “Calvin threatened to tell you and dad