Ex-Husband's Regret

Chapter 0340

I try to pull my eyes away from hers, but it’s difficult. Her pain is gripping, and I’m the one it has a hold on.

She’s in a corner all by herself. Mother was busy socializing, and so was Trevor. Her posture and look weren’t really inviting at all. She looked like she could shrink in on herself at any moment, but what disturbed me most was the anguish in her eyes. I understood pain; after all, haven’t I been through it already? Countless times, in fact.

Now I understand where her pain is coming from. I understand the cause of her depressed and sad state. It’s Gunner. Her son.

“What are you looking at, Ava?” Letty’s voice sounds far away.

It’s like I was hypnotized. I couldn’t look away. I couldn’t see anything except her.

Calvin shakes me, and with great difficulty, I turn to him. He looks at me questioningly. I didn’t understand it, but for some weird reason, I wanted to comfort Emma.

“Why are you staring at Emma like a deer caught in headlights?” Corrine asks, her eyebrows furrowed.

her eyes were no longer on me.

the two words,

up with her… From what I hear, guilt and regret are hitting her hard, and she’s not

at Calvin, but his expression is cold and stoic, revealing absolutely nothing. Either all the feelings he had for Emma are gone, or they’ve turned to hate, or he’s just hiding them. Burying them inside so that he

there, but you could tell

how things would have turned out had I let go of my obsession with Rowan. Looking at

have slept with Rowan, we wouldn’t have gotten married, Rowan and Emma wouldn’t

on later on and so would Calvin. Hell, I think he’d already started moving on before he slept with Emma.

“I’ll be right back.” I excuse myself and leave the

and just sit in the living room for a little while. The realization that I might have been the cause of

perfectly understand that ultimately every choice Rowan, Calvin, and Emma made is on them and that it isn’t my fault for the mistakes

startles me, and

I lie. “I’m just lost in

cake,” she informs me, and