Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

3. Emma’s back

I sat on the cold hospital chair breathing in then out. Mother was still sobbing and she couldn’t be consoled. My heart broke for her. I understand it isn’t easy losing the man you love in such an unexpected way.

It was still a shock. I expected him to make a full recovery but now he was dead and I had no idea how to feel.

We never saw eye to eye and even though he hated me. I loved him. He was after all my father so how could I not love him?

“You okay?” Rowan asks sitting down beside me.

He arrived about an hour ago and this is the first time he talked to me since he came. I didn’t know what to do with the concern he was showing. After all he has never taken my feelings into consideration before.

“Yeah” I manage to say.

I haven’t shed a tear since we were given the news. Maybe it was belated shock or maybe I ran out of tears for him. Right now I was doing all I could to stay afloat since everyone else was breaking down.

I see feet in my peripheral vision and when I look up I find Travis staring at me. Just like always there isn’t a flicker of warmth in his eyes when he looks at me. I know what I did was a wrong but I haven’t I paid enough for that night?

“What?” I ask him.

dad got shot so she should be arriving soon. She still doesn’t know that dad didn’t make it” he

need to know that her name still affects him. The warmth he provided just a few minutes ago

figured” I mumble because what else

to be in the same

be cordial and give her space”

what you’re

or not. You ran my daughter off nine years ago with your betrayal. I won’t let you do that again especially now that your father is no longer with us and we need each other” she says through clenched

past in my face. Haven’t I already paid enough for the actions I took when I was young and foolish? Yet they keep punishing

case you’ve forgotten I’m also your daughter or am I also dead

stand up and leave.

refuse to let them fall. What am I even doing here? Why did she bother calling

family and they didn’t consider me as one of their own too.

daughter?” a nurse appears scaring the shit out of

after calming down my

tells me, probably trying to be mindful of my

just give me a

so I owe him.

family. They would no longer have to put up with me like they

direction to the morgue. By the time I get there, the rest had already

looks so at peace. Kind of like he does when he is asleep. You would think that he is just resting. Instead he was dead. His soul long departed from

father” I

he wasn’t the only one I would be saying goodbye to. They