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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start dating I’m not planning to stay single

clench into fists at the last part. For some reason heat starts rising

time to breathe in and calm myself.

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

walking. I find her in the kitchen

you would leave. In case you haven’t guessed it, your presence

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

Ava, I

is not awake yet and you could have

come in”

mouth to speak I was sure she was about to say something that would probably

can wait for him while we

the dish

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

difficult all of a sudden? It was getting on my fucking nerves Where the fuck was the agreeable and

you wanted? For me to be out of your

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

wants to do is light. I wasnt in the

it came at the perfect time, just when Empia comes back to

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but I never lied to her.

nine years ago, then she is the one that

You know I never lied to you. You always knew I loved

I don’t know what I saw in you to begin with. I

my teeth at her words. 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

not here to talk about the past, I’m here to talk about Noah” I say changing the

to say what I came here to

or did something I would

back. Instead she opens

out a bottle of medicine. Uncapping it using one

and swallows.

the label, I

arm?”

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

concern” she

and all but

truth. Are you going to talk? If

Noah is wakes up”

and goes to leave but I clump my hand around her uninjured hand. She immediately wrenches her hand from me as

touch me!”

now on? Are we forever going to be at each other’s throats? We

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

Her eyes growing colder than I

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you insulting me and comparing me to Emma. My behavior doesn’t concern you,

anyone about behaviors go give them to the

at each other.