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

got here.

I

hard.

I was going until I was at Kate’s house” I tell

so angry on his behalf

for me when I was little

up for him and call Emma out

I’d prayed for when I was growing up. Other parents noticed how

Hell, even Rowan’s

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

through how

You were right for exposing what a bitch

this part of me that felt like maybe

could have handled it

I couldn’t even think straight. I

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

my door, Letty.

felt so tired and drained. Both emotionally and

We’ll talk tomorrow. I know it has been a

goodnights and hang up. I consider ignoring the

I didn’t want to

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up and ge open the

what are you doing here?” I ask

to see him if I am being

that he

he asks instead of

with me because I step aside

he enters my

asks while taking off

here. Today he’ll be sleeping

For a moment I think he’s going to start a fight over

literally forces himself to calm down. I almost clap for him at his

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

him recently, but today it’s

cared. In fact he would have lashed out at me

possible that

push away those thoughts. I’m being absurd. He had

for him to have a change of heart all of a

a while to consider what I just said.

feel like I’ve been scraped

closer

me in his arms. I feel his body heat. I feel him entirely.

where I

pushing him away, but for some reason I am not. My mind was completely empty

If I had been thinking clearly, I would

know this must be hard

concerns Gunner”

that not all

Gunner, but also

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

know, Rowan” I

caresses my cheek softly. His fingers skimming over my cheek and neck.

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

like he wants. Like I am his world,

of one way to distract you” he starts. “If I bend and take those pretty pink lips, will you let me?” he ask, as

just stare

no‘ I whisper to

no, Ava.

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