Ex-Husband's Regret

Chapter 114

The wait
I stare at the doctor as if I’m a damn idiot who can’t comprehend what he just said. In my defense, his words didn’t register wholly with me. He was asking me to choose between Ava and her baby. Does he know how difficult that is?

“Mr. Woods, time is of the essence. We need to know your decision,” he all but begs.

I open my mouth, but no words come out. I try again, and the same thing fucking happens.

“Mr. Woods?” the nurse calls, concern in her voice.

“The baby,” Letty’s soft voice suddenly says, breaking the silence. “Save the baby, if it comes down to it.”

The doctor and nurse nod their heads before rushing back to the ER. I turn to face Letty with mixed feelings waging war inside me.

My look must have communicated something because she hardens her eyes in defiance before speaking.

“Don’t look at me like that, Rowan. This is what Ava would have wanted,” she says through gritted teeth.

Corrine comes to the defense of her friend.

“She’s right. Ava would have picked her baby over herself any day, any time. If we picked her over the child, she would have hated us.

I deflate after she voices what I was thinking just a few minutes ago. I know she’s right, but that doesn’t take away the heaviness I feel in my heart.

I would never wish her baby harm. All I pray right now is that it doesn’t come down to that. I hope that

both of them make it. Ava deserves to know happiness, and her baby deserves to live.

I resume my seat and wait. It killed me to wait, but what choice do I have? I’m not a doctor, so I can’t

really help her. All I can do is continue praying.

I don’t remember the last time I prayed. Probably when I was still a kid in Sunday school. Right now, I’m willing to pray to anyone who’ll listen and answer my request. If it was possible to trade places with her,

then I would have gladly done so, even if it meant that I wouldn’t have survived.

As long as she got to live her life, then I would do it. I would sacrifice everything I have right now just to see her scowling or glaring at me. I would give up the world to reverse what happened to her if I could.

“It’s my fault.”

the voice

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told myself I’d call her after i got out of work. I should have

into his arms

fault, Letty. You

picked up her call. She wanted us to go shopping, but I was busy, so I asked her if we could postpone. If only I’d gone with her. Maybe I could have done something to prevent her from getting hurt.” She had her arms wrapped around herself as if she were cold. Just

friend shining through their eyes.

predicted something like this happening, so don’t blame yourself. The only one responsible is

won’t help. We need to focus on

best prayers for them,” my mom

just focus on the emergency room, waiting for someone to

This was killing me. The waiting. The worrying.

to be okay. That she and the baby were out

for a silver lining. For a kind of miracle.

weren’t his to claim. Not now. It wasn’t

they’ve both

didn’t see the glass wall

smile.

right in the face before she fell

couldn’t stop laughing about

chuckled. There was just something about

I gritted my teeth and forced myself

the time the hot waiter caught her talking about how cute he is. We tried signaling to her that he

didn’t get it, not until the man cleared his voice,” Corrine says with a

on her face.

mortified. She begged us to leave because she couldn’t face him after that.” Letty adds.

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to that place again,”

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lane. For the others, there probably weren’t any good memories. After all,

of them.

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