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,

Like my world had exploded, and I’d been left with nothing. When I went back

any of you, but I fell

feeling as small as I did

with Ava.

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

pushing, and when I refused to get better,

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

tough

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

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

been going through her own kind

that. Molly became my anchor. My

cry or think about Rowan every second.” I take a deep breath “It

Calvin again. It turns out we

assignment partner.” 2

After all, we weren’t friends. I tolerated

remnants of the obsession he had for me in

out of

now more than

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

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

at first

to breathe through the pain of the memories,

so fucking hard.

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

drunk and sleeping with Ava, angry at Ava for getting pregnant and

and angry

I don’t need to turn

the way I wanted it

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get back to Rowan, and that would have hurt him. That’s why I slept with

lost my virginity. I was saving it for Rowan and in the end I gave it to the guy who kept fighting for me to love

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

been wrong. I hadn’t planned for what was

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

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

mistake to always be

the morning

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

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

I assumed tha‘ n’t really enough to get me pregnant.

aused me to get one, but like I said, I

anyone to know.”

to tell me that during all the years

a virgin?” Travis asks in

started dating, which was at seventeen, he’d previously

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

I was ready. My biggest regret

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we not talk about this?

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a virgin. Anyway,” 1 paused. “I told Calvin about

to get rid of it, but he

Mom asks, her voice

but nod my head. “Calvin threatened

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