Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

Rowan.

I see the moment she shuts her emotions down. The moment the warm look she had just a few

seconds ago turns cold. Which leaves me cold.

“What are you doing here?” Ava asks her voice monotonous as I push my way into her house.

It’s like she was talking to a stranger. Like I was nothing but a speck of dust and nothing more. I stare at her unable to come up with anything. I’ve lived with this woman for almost a decade and

yet right now I can’t find the right words.

I look at her hand still in a sling. I came to check up on her and also to pick Noah. It was the

weekend so it was my time with him.

Remembering the man that I saw leaving, my brows furrow. He must be who the smile was for.

That little piece of realization makes my jaw clench.

“What was he doing here?” I ask instead of answering while trying to hide the unreasonable anger

I was feeling.

I get the guy is an officer and that he saved her life but he was crossing a line. I didn’t fucking like

him and I didn’t want him anywhere near Ava.

“That’s none of your business” she retorts.

“It is my business when you’re entertaining.men this early in the morning with my son in the house….did he sleep over? Is that why I saw him leaving?”

The thought of that leaves a bitter taste in my mouth. The last thing I want is for her to be exposing Noah to men months after we separated. It wouldn’t leave a good impression on the type

of woman she is.

She gives a humorless laugh, pulling me back to the present.

“It’s not any of your fucking business…do you see me meddling in your life while you’re busy entertaining Emma? And isn’t it hypocritical of you to stand there judging me?”

I glare at her. “Emma is different”

“How so?” she first feigns puzzlement and then her face lights up as if she figured out something. but I know it’s mockery. “Oh, I forgot she’s the love of your fucking life”

I grind my teeth She was starting to piss me off. What the hell was wrong with her? It’s like she

has something against me.

“I’ll never do anything that would affect Noah but I’m a single woman and I will have whoever!

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dating I’m not planning

reason heat starts rising up in my core making me

in and

been here. It looked different from the house we

continue walking. I find her in the kitchen

up, glaring at me. “I had hoped you would leave. In case you haven’t guessed

Why is it that everything out of her mouth these past few days is nothing but pure venom? It’s like all she wants is to strike at me and her

I came for

could have done what

come in”

the barstools She frowns at me and opens her mouth to speak I was sure she was about to say something that would

wait for him

and she fists the dish towel in her

long as we follow the terms

of a sudden? It was getting on my fucking nerves Where the fuck was the

you wanted? For me to be out of your life”

my nose in frustration “I’m not the

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

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

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always a sour subject but I never lied to her. Never led her on. She

wasn’t for the mistake nine years ago, then she is

say? You know I never lied to you. You always knew

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

during our marriage but it was just to scratch an itch.

here

I needed to say what I came

did something I would regret

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

a bottle of medicine. Uncapping it using one hand, she pops

and swallows.

label, I realize it’s pain

the arm?”

came here to talk, so talk Rowan… we both know you don’t care

concern” she snaps.

clench my hand and all but yell. “Damn it

the truth. Are you going to talk? If

Noah is wakes up”

my hand around her uninjured hand. She immediately wrenches her

me!”

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

why I always preferred Emma. Why I fell in love with her” I ground out, my temper getting the better of

growing colder than I could ever

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you insulting me

about behaviors go give them to the

say anything for a while. We glare at each other. Each one refusing