Ex-Husband's Regret

Chapter 0321

I stare at him, dunfounded, unable to say or do anything.

“You love smelling good, and you lean more on scents with berries in them. As long as a perfume or body wash has some kind of berry, you’ll buy it. You don’t really have a favorite food because you’ll eat anything as long as it’s delicious. You love taking really long and hot showers because it relaxes you. You hate heights, you hate being late, and you also hate flying. You hate cockroaches; you always say you’d rather your house be infested with spiders than those disgusting brown things… Shall I continue?”

He doesn’t give me a chance to answer.

“You prefer styling your hair in ponytails and buns. You don’t like makeup that much and only put it on when you have to or are in the mood for it. You hate sleeping on your back because it reminds you of a dead person in a casket. You hate being disorganized and also the color yellow

I raise my hand to stop him because I am completely speechless. Everything he said was the damn truth. I can’t comprehend how he knew all of this since we’ve never been close. The Sharp’s wouldn’t have told him because they barely even knew me.

“How?” I stammer, unable to wrap my head around everything.

“I told you,”

“Wow” says with a smile. “I paid attention even when you thought I didn’t.”

Despite the warm air, I shiver. He takes out his jacket and places it around my shoulders.

“I also know that you love nature. According to you, it rejuvenates you. That’s why I brought you here,” he says gently, and I can’t stop a smile from forming on my lips.

“Well, it looks like I dressed up for nothing. If I’d thought you were bringing me here, I would have worn something casual.”

“Nah, it’s okay. I’m so fucking clad you dressed up; that way my eyes can feast on you,” he winks at me, and my heart flutters.

basking in each other’s presence that is until his voice cuts through

know everything there is?”

my head against his chest, feeling the beating of his heart. “There is one

“So there is actually

his rock–hard abs, but it

“Go ahead”

a teacher back when you

and yet even in junior high, they still had girls fawning over them. Gabe

had banged a teacher. He’d been in detention and the principal had

said that he didn’t even look apologetic or scared of the principal. In fact he had asked him if he would like to join them. After

husky and rich. It was the manly kind of laugh that I could

true,” he

always just thought

how old were you?

made it fucking easy to draw her in when she would literally push her boobs towards my face or widening her legs while in a tiny skirt every time she called me to

was a teacher for heaven’s sake, yet she tried seducing one of her students. I’m a teacher, and I would never cross that line. 1

one that asked,” Rowan says, noticing my scrunched–up

know, but I find it disturbing that a teacher would intentionally seduce her seventeen–year-

shrugs, like it’s not a big deal. After that, the conversation is more laid–back. I totally enjoyed myself. It

and played silly high school games. Everything was perfect, and I felt like I was where and with whom

and left, it was already late at night. I smiled all the way home, feeling like