Ex-Husband's Regret

Chapter 0511

I am honestly disgusted listening to her right now. Who the hell does that to someone else? Gabriel is a living being with feelings. What they did to him was downright cruel.

"You know the rest," she pauses before continuing. "When you blacklisted me and Paul, life became unbearable. We couldn't stay here given that we couldn't even get jobs. We fled abroad but broke up soon after. I'm so sorry, Gabe. I'm sorry that I used you and didn't treasure what we had. It's only after we were apart that I realized my feelings for you, but it was already too late. You hated me and didn't want to see me."

My heart races, and my breathing deepens. Even though it's cold, sweat trickles down my back. I am so afraid. So, fucking afraid that he will choose her. This is his chance to be with the first woman he ever loved. I try to control my trembling as I wait to hear what he'll say. As I wait to hear his answer to her confession. After all, first loves are hard to forget.

*None of that matters," he finally says after a while.

What did that mean? Does he mean it doesn't matter because he still loves her and has forgiven her?

like I am about

but he holds up his finger. He then turns and looks at me briefly. I see something pass in his grey eyes, but it's too quick for me to read. My heart beats loudly, almost drowning out

me to stay here as he shatters my heart once again? Tears begin filling my eyes, and I

you did doesn't matter now because your actions led me to my wife," he begins. I look at the side of his face in confusion. Say what? "I no longer love you, Ashley, and I haven't in a long time. My heart belongs

its tight grip as I realize that Gabriel

your apology, but I am where I belong and with whom I belong. What we had died a long

feel like jumping for joy. I know

life and don't ever look for me." There wasn't anything in it. No anger or