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 to stay single

fists at the last part. For some reason heat starts rising up in my core making me want to hit something or

hallway. I take time to breathe in and calm myself. I follow the sounds of pans banging while I survey her

the house we shared So very different that I was momentarily left

continue walking. I find her in

me. “I had hoped you would

of her mouth these past few days is nothing but pure venom? It’s

the weekend Ava, I came

not awake yet and you could have done what

come in”

opens her mouth to speak I was sure she was about to

I can wait for him while

fists the

talk about As long as we follow the terms of the custody agreement then we can live

sudden? It was getting on my fucking nerves Where the fuck was the agreeable and

this what you wanted? For me to be out of your

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

want it and look, it came at the perfect time, just when

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know it’s always a sour subject but I never lied to her.

heart and if it wasn’t for the mistake nine years ago, then she is the one that would have been

to say? You know I

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

words angering me. Yes we did sleep together during our marriage but it was just to scratch an itch. I took vows

here to talk about the past, I’m here

needed to say what

did something I would regret

her attentions. She doesn’t fire back. Instead she opens

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

and swallows.

label, I

arm?”

to talk, so talk Rowan… we both know you

concern” she snaps.

my hand and all

I’m just stating the truth. Are you going to talk?

Noah is wakes up”

my hand around her uninjured hand. She immediately wrenches her hand

touch me!”

Is this how she was going to behave from now on? Are we forever going to be at each other’s throats? We

of the reasons why I always preferred Emma. Why I fell in love with

Her eyes growing colder

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have you insulting me and comparing me to Emma.

anyone about behaviors go give them to the

don’t say anything for a while. We glare at each other. Each