Ex-Husband's Regret

Chapter 104

Something wrong with me

Ava

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My brain cells were totally fried.

I’ve been sitting here since Calvin left about an hour ago. I asked him if Noah could stay the night

at his house today and he agreed.

I was still trying to grasp all that I learnt today. It was too much information all at once. I didn’t

know how to handle all of it.

My phone rings. For a second I think of ignoring, but decide against it. It might be an emergency.

I swipe the screen sightlessly. I put the gadget to my ear, but don’t say a thing. My mind was

completely blank so I wait for whoever was on the other side to speak.

“Ava” she breathes. “Thank God. Are you okay? Travis told me what happened today”

Immediately I recognize her voice. Letty.

“I’m not sure, honestly” I reply in a whisper.

I still didn’t understand how Emma could be so cruel to Calvin and Gunner. I know that she always

wanted to carry Rowan’s children, but to reject her own flesh and blood because he doesn’t have

Rowan’s DNA is downright malicious.

“Travis told me you’re the one that discovered the truth and exposed Emma’s lie”

Knowing how a parent’s rejection feels like, I completely understood Gunner’s pain. I took his pain

as my own because he r ded me so much of myself.

He didn’t choose Emma to be his mother, yet she hurt him as if he was nothing. That pissed me of

and broke my heart at the same time.

“Yes. It was just by coincidence I guess”

“How? How were you able to figure it out” she asks, her voice in disbelief.

I don’t know whether it’s from finding out that Emma has a son or it’s from her inability to

understand how I came by the truth.

“His smile” I breathe. “He’s smiled at me many times before, but there was this day it just hit me

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was young snapped in my head His smile was similar to hers

“Cal never said anything before?”

“Never but when I mentioned Emma’s name, he completely froze. That gave everything away.

Also the fact that he didn’t correct me”

It still seems so surreal. I can’t imagine my life without Noah so I don’t understand how Emma

was able to live like her son didn’t exist.

everything” she insists and I proceed to tell her everything from how it

got here.

I didn’t want to project my pain, but it

hard.

where I was going until I was at Kate’s house” I tell her.

ago. “I felt so angry on his behalf and mine. I wanted

did for me when I was little and they treated

for him and call Emma out on her

was growing

treated me, yet they said nothing. Hell, even Rowan’s parents kept

what was right. So I decided to do it

you babe. No child should suffer through how your Kate and James treated you

Gunner. You were right for exposing what a bitch

of me that felt like

could have handled it

I was so angry that I couldn’t even

All I thought about as I drove is; Like mother, like daughter

door, Letty. I have

felt so tired and drained. Both

tomorrow. I know it has been a tiring day

both say our goodnights and hang up. I consider ignoring the person on

didn’t want to

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slowly use up and

doing here?” I

am being honest,

that

come in?” he

wrong with me because I step aside and let

he enters my

Noah asleep?” he asks while

Today he’ll be sleeping

anger flash in his eyes at his name. For a moment

he literally forces himself to calm down. I almost

It’s crazy how today turned out.” He pauses. “How

changes in him recently, but today it’s just sort

In fact he would have lashed out at me

it honestly be possible

head to push away those thoughts. I’m being

have a change of heart all

say, then take a while to consider what I just

feel like I’ve

walks closer

me in his arms. I feel his body

place where I am

for some reason I am not. My

thinking clearly, I would have told him

pain? I know this must

concerns Gunner”

I’m shocked that he understands that not all

but also because of

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but he cups my cheek and makes

don’t know, Rowan” I

skimming over my cheek and neck.

eyes clash with mine. He stares at me in a way that I used to

like he wants. Like I am his

know of one way to distract you” he starts. “If I bend and take those pretty pink lips, will you

stare at

I whisper

Ava. Push

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