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

at the last part. For some reason heat starts rising up in my

and leaves me in the hallway. I take time to breathe in and calm myself. I follow the sounds of pans banging

honesty I’ve never been here. It looked different from the house we shared So very

continue walking. I find her

at me. “I had hoped you would leave. In case you

is nothing but pure venom? It’s like all she wants is to strike at me and

I

could have done what you always do Honk You didn’t

come in”

and opens her mouth to speak I was

I can wait for

she fists the dish towel in

Rowan, we have nothing to talk about As long as we follow the terms of the custody

was getting on my fucking nerves Where the fuck

For me to be out of your

of my nose in frustration “I’m not

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

just when Empia comes back to town

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

and if it wasn’t for the mistake nine years ago, then she

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

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

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

talk about the past, I’m here to talk about

draining going round and round. I needed to say what I came here to say

did something I

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

a bottle of medicine. Uncapping it using

and swallows.

the label, I realize it’s

the arm?”

we both know you don’t

she snaps.

hand and all but yell.

stating the truth. Are you going to talk?

Noah is wakes up”

I clump my hand around her uninjured hand. She

me!”

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

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

growing colder than

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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

anyone about behaviors go give them to

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