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

last part. For some reason heat starts rising up in my core making me want to

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

It looked different from the house

walking. I find her in the kitchen wiping down

glaring at me. “I had hoped you would leave. In case you haven’t guessed it, your presence is

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

weekend Ava, I came

could have done

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 probably piss me off so I cut her

can wait for him while

frowns deepens, and she fists the dish towel

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

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

you wanted? For me to

nose in frustration “I’m

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

want it and look, it came at the perfect time, just when Empia comes back to town

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never lied to her. Never led her

nine years ago, then she

you want me to say? You know I never

“That 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.

did sleep together during our marriage but it was just to scratch an itch. I took vows and despite the fact

the past, I’m here to

round. I needed to say what

something I

doesn’t fire back. Instead

medicine. Uncapping it using

and swallows.

label, I realize it’s pain

the arm?”

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

she

and all but yell. “Damn it

you going to talk? If

Noah is wakes up”

her uninjured hand. She immediately

me!” she

was going to behave from now on? Are we

I always preferred Emma. Why I fell in love with her” I ground out, my

Her eyes growing colder than I could

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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 divorced…so if you want to

go give them to the love

while. We glare at each other. Each one refusing