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,

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

tell any of you, but I fell

I did back

with Ava.

and I didn’t

and when

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

out how tough things were for

I had so much

found out how far I’d fallen, she would

that I discovered she had been going through her own

after that. Molly became my anchor. My grades were improving,

cry or think about Rowan every second.” I take

we went to the same Uni

assignment partner.” 2

talk to him. After all, we weren’t friends. I tolerated him

the obsession he had for me in high school,

stayed out of my way

but now more than ever, I knew they

said, things were going well for some time. They weren’t

me

first

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

so fucking hard.

really angry. Angry

sleeping with Ava, angry at Ava

I loved and angry at the baby for

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

if everything had gone the

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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 longer

but it’s also how I lost my virginity. I was saving it for Rowan and in the end I gave it to the guy who

the next morning. It had been foolish 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

I been wrong. I hadn’t planned for what

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

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 to hinder that.

my mistake to always be in

the morning after?” mom asks, making

new to me. To put it plainly, I

I didn’t really know that I

to get me pregnant.

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

anyone to know.”

the years you dated Rowan, you

a virgin?” Travis

we started dating, which

that walked and had a vagina. When I’d told him

to wait till I was ready.

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uncomfortably “Can we not talk about this? It was

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I was still a

I didn’t want the child and I wanted to get rid of it,

wanted an abortion?” Mom asks, her voice

threatened to

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