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.

but her eyes were no longer on me.

two words, unable to complete the sentence.

are hitting her hard, and she’s not taking it

had for Emma are gone, or they’ve turned to hate, or he’s just hiding them. Burying them inside so

shift from him, then to her, and finally to Rowan. Rowan was busy chatting with Gabe, his dad, and some others. Trevor was there, but you could tell there was a bit of tension between the two of them.

my obsession with Rowan. Looking at it as a mature adult, could it be

have happened. I wouldn’t have slept with Rowan, we wouldn’t have gotten married, Rowan and

been painful losing Rowan, but I think that probably I would have moved on later on and so would Calvin. Hell, I

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

a little while. The realization that I might have been the cause of the heartache and sorrow of four people is heavy

everyone has their own paths to follow. I perfectly understand that ultimately every choice Rowan, Calvin, and Emma made is on them and that it isn’t my fault for the mistakes they made, but I still can’t help but feel that I was

Ava?” Teresa’s voice startles me, and I

just lost

then, it’s time to cut the cake,” she informs me, and I stare at