Ex-Husband's Regret

Chapter 0444

‘My heart aches at the pain that’s still embedded in her voice. I get why she’s still in therapy. Ava hasn’t yet healed completely.

I look back and put myself in her shoes. I never questioned why my parents were how they were towards Ava even before she and Rowan messed up. I just went along with how things were. I didn’t ignore her, but I also never went out of my way to make her feel included.

After the mess with Rowan, I was too heartbroken and drowning in my own pain to care about how cruelly they treated her. In my head, I rationalized it by saying that she deserved it.

“I wasn’t the best older sister growing up, was I?” I ask slowly, as the weight of my mistakes continue to hit me.

“It’s okay, and it doesn’t really matter. I was also not the best little sister and I ruined everything. I love Noah, I really do . and I’d never regret him, but I do regret the night he was conceived. I never meant to cause you so much pain, Emma. Please believe that.” I blink back the tears, trying my hardest not to let them fall. She reaches out and grabs my hand before squeezing it. When 1 look up, she’s also fighting back her tears.

being nice to me? I was terrible to you after I came back.” I was puzzled. I did everything to cause trouble for her. She should hate

how you treated me, I understood where you were coming from. It

a right to be angry. You had right to hate me. Your emotions towards me were valid given I loved and wanted him even knowing he I was taken. I was young

that will always be my biggest regret.” I squeeze her hand. Needing an anchor to tie me to the present. To stop me from drowning in a sea of loss and

than you know. I look at everything and I

pain. Maybe everybody would have gotten their happy ending. I'm so sorry. I ruined your life and I don’t even know how

that she carried such

and Gunner? How I I treated them was

or my mistakes.” “But my actions led you to those choices, so no matter how you look at it, it’s still my fault.” “No, it’s not,” I tell her firmly, wiping my