Ex-Husband's Regret

Chapter 105

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The bright light coming through my window makes me open my eyes. Instead of getting up

immediately, I just stay in bed for a while as I rub my belly and feel my baby move inside me.

I look at the calendar on my bedside table and realize that today I just hit the sixth–month

milestone. It’s scary to have a baby. The whole journey is filled with uncertainty. I always make

sure to thank God each time I pass a milestone with my baby, knowing not all babies get to be

born.

After saying a small thank–you prayer, I get up and move downstairs. I could always shower later,

but right now I am hungry. With everything that happened yesterday, I forgot to eat.

Thinking about yesterday brings me to what happened with Rowan. I still can’t believe that I let

him kiss me or that I actually enjoyed it.

It bugs me so much that I wanted more. I wanted him to deepen the kiss. I wanted him to take it

further. I can blame it on the hormones, but we all know that I’d be lying to myself.

Rowan hurt me so much. The fact that I wanted him yesterday makes me hate myself just a little

bit. I promised myself to move on, yet there I was making out with him in my living room.

I want to believe that Rowan has changed, but I just can’t. Even if, by some miracle, he has, don’t

you think it’s a little too late for us? Too much has already happened for us to make something out

of the mess he created.

Taking out the ingredients for breakfast, I get to work. No matter what I try, I still can’t stop

thinking about the

kiss. For heaven’s sake, why the hell did this kiss affect me so much? I

just don’t fucking get it, honestly.

in frustration, wishing I could erase the feel of

me so much that I let go of

holding.

out of me,” I say with my hand pressing

beating heart.

grins. “I thought you heard us, given Gunner and Noah

find them munching on the cookies that I

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a little bit

“Are you still thinking about what happened

just nod my head. It was a lie, but he didn’t

different thing.

making for breakfast,

fry up” I

the air. “I love

breakfast food at once.”

happy. I’m hoping that one day Emma will see the error of her ways and mend

Noah asks.

yet. Just a few more minutes, and I’ll be done. Why don’t

I finish up?”

time,

takes the cleaning tools from me and proceeds to

for breakfast when we should have given you

they

It’s not that Calvin was a bad cook.

mine.

would have finished cooking and brought some over anyway, so it’s not a

as I get back to

are you holding up, all things considered?” I

pauses. “I feel relieved that now everyone knows about Gunner. He’s an amazing

dirty secret. After my grandfather died, I had

being just the two of us,

his mother had a family. Gunner deserves

weren’t people worth knowing, but they’d treated Noah well, so I

for Gunner

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