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.

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

got here.

am done, I’m crying once again. I didn’t want to project my pain, but

hard.

was at Kate’s house” I tell her. I had

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

did for me when I was little and they

up for him and

was something I’d prayed for when I was growing

said nothing. Hell, even Rowan’s parents kept quiet

No one stood up for me or what was right. So

babe. No child should suffer through how your

right for exposing what a bitch she is”

of me that felt like

could have handled it

angry that I couldn’t even think

as I drove is; Like mother, like daughter 2I was about to say something when my doll bell

my door, Letty. I

felt so tired and drained. Both emotionally

know it has been a tiring day

up. I consider ignoring the person on

I didn’t want to

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up and

what are you doing here?”

I am being honest, I was expecting him to

I’m shocked that he in

in?” he asks instead

step aside and let him in. He gives me

he enters my

asks while taking off his

though he’s not here. Today he’ll

at his name. For a

to calm down. I almost clap for him

how today turned out.” He pauses. “How are

some massive changes in him recently, but today it’s just

he wouldn’t have cared. In fact he would

it honestly be possible that he

my head to push away those thoughts. I’m being absurd. He had nine years to

possible for him to have a change of heart all of

while to consider what I just said. “Scratch

I feel like I’ve been scraped

closer

I feel his body heat. I feel

every place where

for some reason I am not. My

from exhaustion. If I had been thinking clearly, I

can I do to ease your pain? I know this must be hard for you and not just because

concerns Gunner”

a bit. I’m shocked that he understands that not all of what I am feeling right

Gunner, but also because

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cups my cheek and

know, Rowan” I

softly. His fingers skimming over my cheek and neck. He then pushes a lock of my hair

He stares at me in a way that I used to dream about. He stares

he wants. Like I am his world, which is impossible,

and take those pretty pink lips,

just stare at

him no‘ I whisper to

Ava. Push

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