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

emotions towards me were valid given I loved and wanted him even knowing he I was taken. I was young and immature, but that’s not an excuse. I

an anchor to tie me to the present. To stop me from drowning in a sea

you know. I look at everything and I wonder if things would have been

gotten their happy ending. I'm so sorry. I ruined your life and I don’t even know how to help you fix ie We both bawling by this point. The only good thing is that we

hated that she carried such

How I I treated them was my decision. She shouldn't

fault, Ava... and I don't want you to think it is. You have nothing to do with my choices or my mistakes.” “But my actions led you to those choices, so