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.

she insists and I proceed to tell her everything

got here.

am done, I’m crying once again. I

hard.

know where I was going until I was at Kate’s

“I felt so angry on

me when I was little and they treated

him and call Emma out on her

something I’d prayed for when I was growing up.

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

or what was right. So I decided to do it for

babe. No child should suffer through how your Kate

treated Gunner. You were right for exposing what a

part of me that felt like maybe I

could have handled it

angry that I couldn’t even

Like mother, like

my door, Letty. I have to

and drained. Both emotionally and

know it has

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

didn’t want to

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up and ge open the

what are you doing here?” I ask

if I am being honest,

her I’m shocked that he in here

he

must be wrong with me because I step aside and let him in.

he enters my

Noah asleep?” he asks

he’s not here. Today he’ll be sleeping over

flash in his eyes at his name. For a moment I think he’s

forces himself to calm down. I almost

how today turned out.” He

I’ve seen some massive changes in him recently, but today

have cared. In fact he would have lashed out

be possible

I’m being absurd. He had nine years

have a change of heart

take a while to consider what I

like

closer

me in his arms. I feel his body

every place where I am

some reason I am not. My mind was completely

from exhaustion. If I had been thinking clearly, I

know this must be hard for you and not

concerns Gunner”

he understands that not all of what I am feeling right now

also

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at his feet, but he cups my cheek and makes me

know, Rowan”

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

me in a

am his world,

you” he starts. “If I bend and take those pretty pink lips, will you let me?”

stare

I

Ava.

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