Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

“Now that you have your money back, get the hell out of my banquet and from now on

you are

banned from any event I or my foundation hosts” There was steel in her voice, a tone I

have never

heard Ava use.

Brenda starts cursing at Ava and the foundation. Ava nods at the bodyguard and he drags

her out

kicking and scream. After she’s out, Ava turns to the room.

Just like with Christine, this was going to affect Brenda’s social standing alot. This was the

best

fucking revenge Ava could take on her.

“Anyone else share in the same opinion as Brenda? Like I said, we are here because of

these kids

and I’ll go through anyone who thinks they can mistreat them” her voice rings across the

room,

steady and strong even without a microphone.

Right then she looked like a damn avenging angel. Ready to strike down anyone who even

so

much as looks at the children wrong

When no one says anything, she smiles. “Well then, sorry for the interruption and I do

hope you

have a lovely time”

My eyes zone in on her as she turs around and walks away. She disappears outside, to the

balcony

Emma says something to me but I ignore her. My eyes fully focused on my ex–wife.

I stand up and push my chair back, then leave. Emma calls my name but I don’t turn back.

I take

long strides in Ava’s direction, Soon I’m outside the room.

She stands at the balcony. Her face facing the now darkening sky, her hair blowing in the

wind

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Now, that I was here I didn’t know what to fucking say. I haven’t spoken to Ava since that

day at

her house. All my text and calls for the past two weeks have gone answered.

I step forward. My steps probably alerted her because she turns slightly. When she sees

it’s just

me, she tenses.

“What do you want Rowan?” she asks in a sigh.

I step further forward until I’m standing beside her.

“Why didn’t you tell me?” I was puzzled. She was my wife and she never said a thing.

“Tell you what?”

“Everything… The Hope Foundation and the fact that you aren’t hurting for money. Why

did you let all of us look down on you?”

She snorts before turning to fully face me. “And when was I supposed to tell you? You

barely wanted to be around me and you would even go to great lengths to make sure we

aren’t together for long.”

I stare at her. Looking deep in her brown eyes. There was something new in them.

Something that wasn’t there before. There was also something missing.

She continues as she looks outside towards the garden. “Besides would you even have

been interested? As far as I can remember, you didn’t particularly care about anything

that concerned

me”

My eyes drift as I watch people walking in and outside of the garden. She was right. I had

been a cold bastard. I rationalized at that time that I didn’t need to care about what the

woman who had destroyed my life was doing.

I resented Ava and it showed in the way I fucking treated her for years. I always prided

myself in being a good person, but looking back I have to admit that I had been prick. So

much so that my wife kept a whole part of her life a secret to me.

“About Emma…” I go to apologize for the words I carelessly threw at her but she cuts me

off.

“Don’t worry about it, I’m not after you Rowan and I don’t plan to come between you and

Emma, you can rest assured that all the love I had for you is dead. You managed to kill it

She takes a steadying breath “Loving you was the biggest mistake I have ever made and I

don’t plan on continuing with that mistake”

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Fuck, why the hell did it feel like someone took a fucking sledge hammer to my heard at

those

words?!

“I will always be thankful because you gave me Noah. He’s the only good thing you’ve

given me

since I’ve known you. I regret falling in love with you but I will never regret our son.”

She turns around and faces the door to the room. She smiles and I swivel around to look at

what

she’s staring at. Her eyes were on Ethan.

“I’m sorry for the trouble I caused you” she says her eyes still on the fucking bastard. “I’m

sorry that my mistake tore you from Emma, I know no one believes me especially you, but

I was drunk that night. Anyway, I wish you the best with your new relationship”

As if feeling eyes on him, Ethan turns and fucking smiles at Ava.

“I plan to stay away from your life and I ask you do the same. Don’t come to my house,

don’t hire bodyguards for me, don’t call me unless it concerns Noah and even then I prefer

you pass any messages to your lawyer then he can forward it to mine” Her eyes were still

fixed on Ethan

The way she looked at him let me know that something was going on between them. I

didn’t like the uncomfortable feeling I was having inside me.

She finally faces me. “I think I’ve said all there is to say…goodbye, Rowan” she then

begins walking towards the door.

My heart is screaming for her to stop and I clench my fist against the unknown need to

pull her to

1. me.

She stops and then turns around. “One more thing, please assure Emma that I don’t want

anything to do with you and on that note, you might want to get the truth from her. If you

want your relationship to work, then it can’t be built on lies she told just to get me into

trouble”

With that she walks away.

“Ava…” her names leaves my lips in a fucking plea.

I watch as Ethan meets her half way. He then takes her hand and leads her outside. I face

forward just in time to see them making their way into the garden

It takes everything in me to stop myself from losing control when I see Ethan kissing her I

quickly turn around to avoid seeing them. My fucking heart drumming in my chest.

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This is what I wanted. That she would move on and leave me and Emma the hell alone. I

got what I

wanted

She was stepping aside. She had a new man. So why the hell did it feel like it was one big

fucking mistake? Why did it feel like something inside me was dying?

She was supposed to be the wrong woman. Yet now that she walked away, I can’t help but

feel lost.