Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

I take a seat on one of the barstools She frowns at me and opens her mouth to speak I was

sure she was about to say something that would probably piss me off so I cut her off

“That’s okay I can wait for him while we talk”

Her frowns deepens, and she fists the dish towel in her small hands.

“But that’s the thing Rowan, we have nothing to talk about As long as we follow the terms

of the custody agreement then we can live like the other doesn’t exist *

I sigh Why was she so stubborn and difficult all of a sudden? It was getting on my fucking

nerves Where the fuck was the agreeable and subdued woman I was used to?

“Isn’t this what you wanted? For me to be out of your life” she asks

I pinch the bridge of my nose in frustration “I’m not the one who asked for a divorce”

1 don’t know what the hell has gotten into her but I was beginning to regret coming into

her house. It seems all she wants to do is light. I wasnt in the fucking mood. Not when I

was supposed to meet with kanta later on in the day.

True but that doesn’t mean you didn’t want it and look, it came at the perfect time, just

when Empia comes back to town Now you can be with her the you’ve always wanted” she

says bifted

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I know it’s always a sour subject but I never lied to her. Never led her on. She knew that

Emma

always had my heart and if it wasn’t for the mistake nine years ago, then she is the one

that would have been my wife.

“What do you want me to say? You know I never lied to you. You always knew I loved her.”

She throws the dishtowel down angrily. “That didn’t stop you from using my body did it?

Gosh I hate you. I don’t know what I saw in you to begin with. I don’t know why I wasted

so much of my time and energy on you”

I grind my teeth at her words. Her words angering me. Yes we did sleep together during

our marriage but it was just to scratch an itch. I took vows and despite the fact I didn’t

love her. I wasn’t going to break them by cheating on her.

“I’m not here to talk about the past, I’m here to talk about Noah” I say changing the topic.

It was draining going round and round. I needed to say what I came here to say then leave

before I

said or did something I would regret later.

Noah’s name gets her attentions. She doesn’t fire back. Instead she opens one of the

cabinets and

takes out a bottle of medicine. Uncapping it using one hand, she pops two pills into her

mouth

and swallows.

Reading the label, I realize it’s pain medication.

“How’s the arm?” I ask.

“You came here to talk, so talk Rowan… we both know you don’t care about me so quite

with the

fake concern” she snaps. 2

I clench my hand and all but yell. “Damn it Ava!”

“What? I’m just stating the truth. Are you going to talk? If not you can leave. I’ll text you

when

Noah is wakes up”

She stands up and goes to leave but I clump my hand around her uninjured hand. She

immediately wrenches her hand from me as if my touch burned her.

“Don’t touch me!” she snarls.

Iraise my hand. Damn it! Is this how she was going to behave from now on? Are we

forever going to be at each other’s throats? We had a son for fuck’s sake.

“This childish behavior is one of the reasons why I always preferred Emma. Why I fell in

love with her” I ground out, my temper getting the better of me.

Her face twists. Her eyes growing colder than I could ever thought possible.

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“Say what you came to say then get out of my fucking house. I won’t have you insulting

me and comparing me to Emma. My behavior doesn’t concern you, we are divorced…so if

you want to give

lectures on anyone about behaviors go give them to the love of your life”

I don’t say anything for a while. We glare at each other. Each one refusing to back down.

Looks

like she finally grew a backbone.

“Look I’m sorry” I concede.

”

She’s fucking right. I shouldn’t have said that. I shouldn’t have compared her to Emma.

We couldn’t be fighting. It would affect Noah seeing us at each other’s throat. It would hurt

him

and I couldn’t have that.

“You can take that st* pid apology of yours and shove up it up…”

I cut her off warningly. “Ava…”

“Fine…what did you want to talk about, hurry up I don’t have a lot of time” she gives me a

devious smirk. “Since I’m busy entertaining men” she throws my words back at me.

I groan but ignore her.

“Your mom and my parents will be going into witness protection because of the case with

the criminal gang. I want Noah to go with them”

She turns serious. “Why?”

“Because I played a part in reporting them and sinking their business. I also got threats

from them. and they know my weakness is Noah…”

“And Emma, let’s not forget your precious darling” she interrupts me. Her voice dripping

with sarcasm and disgust.

I ran my hand through my hair in frustration. Heaven’s knows it’s been a trying morning

and Ava is hell bent on pushing my fucking buttons.

Ignoring her I continue. “Seeing as your father is already dead because of this, I can’t risk

Noah getting hurt”

“Why didn’t you tell me this yesterday?”

“You left before we could tell you everything” I point out.

“For how long will he be gone?”

“Till the threat has been eliminated and the culprits caught”

She nods her head and sighs. “When will he be leaving?”

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“The day after tomorrow”

I can see she doesn’t want to be parted from Noah But she also knows that this is the only

way to make sure he is safe. One thing we had in common was our love for him. We would

both do anything for him.

“Okay. I’ll start packing for him. You’ll spend the today with him and I’ll spend tomorrow

with him. I think that’s fair”

“Alright then” I agree.

She then leaves to go and wake up our son. It’s as I was waiting for them that I realized

what had been missing in Ava’s eyes since yesterday

The love that used to shine in her eyes when she looked at me was completely gone.

There wasn’t anything there anymore. In fact, she now looked at me like I always looked at

her. With nothing but resentment.