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.

groan in frustration, wishing I could erase the feel of

you so frustrated?” Calvin’s voice startles me so much that I

holding.

you scared the living day lights out of me,” I say with my hand pressing hard on

beating heart.

us, given Gunner

said boys to find them munching on the cookies that I had baked

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I was just a little

“Are you still thinking about what happened

my head. It was a lie, but he didn’t

different thing.

making for

fry up”

air. “I love fry–ups; it’s like having all your

breakfast food at once.”

smile at him. So happy that he is happy. I’m hoping that one day Emma will see the error of her ways and mend her fences with Gunner before it’s

Noah asks. “I’m so

more minutes, and I’ll be done. Why don’t you go wait in the living room

I finish up?”

say at the same time, before

cleaning tools from me and proceeds to clean up the mess I’d made. “Sorry

given you more time

that they wanted your

at that. It’s not that Calvin was a bad cook. He just didn’t make it

mine.

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

I get

holding up, all things considered?” I ask

that now

he shouldn’t be hidden away like a dirty secret. After

two of us,

a family. Gunner deserves to

eyes, Travis and Kate weren’t people worth knowing,

Gunner to be around

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