Ex-Husband's Regret

Chapter 0527

I pull myself up straight, my back ramrod, as I try to give myself some false bravado. I try to get the words out. To tell her that I am okay, but my tongue is heavy, and the words refuse to leave my mouth.

She gently pats my shoulders. "I understand. Go and take a seat. It looks like your son needs a shoulder to lean on right now. You can be each other's anchor."

I do the only thing I can. I nod my head before leaving. I get to Gunner and sit next to him before pulling him onto my lap. We hug each other, holding on to one another.

I don't know how long it is when I feel someone shaking me. I focus on the person only to find Ava staring at me. Her brows pulled down, her mouth turned down, and her eyes full of worry.

"We are all here," she mumbles softly before sitting next to me. "Is she still in surgery?"

"Yes," I croak out the word that feels to have been pulled from deep down.

"What happened?" Travis asks, holding their mother, who seems last in his hands.

been in the hospital. One of them never came out alive, the other

Ava and Rowan, Connier and Reaper, Letty, Gabriel, and his wife. Rowan

was my fault," Gunner whispers. "We were in the garden when I heard Rex from across the street. She wanted to get him, but

saved our son, but got hurt in the process. I don't know what to

fault," Gunner cries brokenly, his pain shattering

I hate seeing him blame himself. Seeing the broken look in

the back of it. "It's

see it in his eyes. He is still blaming himself, and he'll continue doing that for some

when we are all so worried about Emma. We were all beginning to get agitated by the lack of communication and information from the doctor when the doors to the operating room opened

*Emma's family?"

case it's bad news. Let's be honest, doctors don't really know how to break off bad news to patients' families. Some of them often

mind taking Gunner to get a snack?" I