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

For some reason heat starts rising up in my core

and leaves me in the hallway. I take time to breathe in and

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

continue walking. I find her in the kitchen wiping

me. “I had hoped you would leave. In case you haven’t guessed

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

Ava, I came for Noah”

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

come in”

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

can wait

and she fists the dish towel

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

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

wanted? For me to be

pinch the bridge of my nose in frustration “I’m not the one who

wants to do is light. I wasnt in the fucking mood. Not when I was supposed to

just when Empia comes back to town Now you can be with her

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

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

I never lied to

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

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

talk about the past, I’m here

I needed to say what I came here to say then leave

or did something I

fire back. Instead she opens one

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

and swallows.

the label, I realize it’s

the arm?” I

talk Rowan… we both know you don’t care about me so quite with

concern” she

hand and all but yell. “Damn it

just stating the truth. Are you going to talk? If not you

Noah is wakes up”

uninjured hand. She immediately wrenches her hand from me as if my

me!” she

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

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

growing colder than

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my fucking house. I won’t have you insulting me and comparing me to Emma. My behavior

about behaviors go give them to the love

a while. We glare at each other.