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.

and I proceed to tell her everything from how it started to how

got here.

once again. I

hard.

was going until I was at

ago. “I felt so angry on his behalf

I was little and they treated me with cruel

for him and

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

Hell, even

what was right. So I

should suffer through how your Kate and James treated you

Emma treated Gunner. You were right for exposing

this part of me that felt like maybe I shouldn’t have done it.

could have handled it

I was so angry that I couldn’t even think

All I thought about as I drove is; Like mother, like daughter 2I was

my door, Letty. I

and drained. Both emotionally and

I know it has been a tiring day for

say our goodnights and hang up. I consider ignoring the person on the door. Like I said,

I didn’t want to see

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up and ge open

you doing here?” I ask in

being

her I’m shocked that he in

in?” he asks instead

aside and let him in. He

he enters

asleep?” he asks while taking

Today he’ll be sleeping over at

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

I almost clap for him at his

out.” He pauses. “How are you

in him recently, but today

he wouldn’t have cared. In fact he would have lashed out at me for hurting

be possible

those thoughts. I’m being

to have a change of

then take a while to consider what I just said. “Scratch

like I’ve been scraped

closer to

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

place where I am

reason I am not.

had been thinking clearly, I would have told him to

can I do to ease your pain? I know this must be hard

concerns Gunner”

he understands that not all of what I

also

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

don’t know,

softly. His fingers skimming over my cheek and neck.

in a way that I used to dream about.

Like I am his world, which is impossible,

way to distract you” he starts. “If I bend and take those

just stare

him no‘ I whisper

no, Ava.

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