Ex-Husband's Regret

Chapter 0504

I don't know, but for some reason, hearing him apologize released something inside me. something I couldn't explain and didn't even know I had been holding on to.

"It's not your fault, and there is nothing to forgive. I should have also realized earlier that we weren't meant to be. That our love was young, but it wasn't the forever kind. Hell, I don't really think we would have been together had our parents not pushed us into a relationship."

Rowan chuckles before his lips turn into a grin. "So, you realized too that our parents were the reason we got together too? Their talk about how we would make a beautiful couple and all that shit. That got into our head and hearing it so often we started believing it."

"True, I don't think we would have gotten together had it not been for them. Everywhere we turned, there was always someone who thought we would be perfect together. Well, except Ava." I smile, remembering that she's the only one who didn't like that Rowan and I were together.

"I think she saw something that none of us saw." Rowan runs a hand down his face and says, "Maybe on a spiritual level, she just knew that you and I weren't meant to be together."

was probably the only one who could see that Rowan and I weren't compatible. She's the

Turning you down when you asked me to marry you should have been a sign, but I was still blind. I am

without saying anything, the shine in his eyes tells

Gunner is Noah's best

about it and finally shake his hand.

then, Ava walks in

a glass, even though I'd told

only kindness, trust and warmth. That is the look of her woman, who was secure in her marriage. A woman who trusted her husband even though he was with his ex. That is the gaze of a woman who knew she didn't have to

He wraps his hand around her waist before pulling her to him. He then leans down and gives her a soft, quick kiss. "Once the tea party was over, she went