Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

15. New development

Rowan.

“How is she doing, Rowan?” Kate, Ava’s mother asks.

The concern in her voice is genuine. You can hear how hard she’s trying to stop herself from

crying. It’s been a very hard couple of days and I still can’t over how we almost lost Ava

“She woke up yesterday for a few minutes before going back to sleep and before you start

worrying, the doctor said it’s normal for patients with head injuries”

I hear her sigh with relief. Kate has been different since the death of her husband She wants to

get close to Ava only now Ava has decided she doesn’t want anything to do with her family. In fact

she doesn’t want anything to do with all of us.

“Will she be okay? Will she make a full recovery?”

“Yes, the doctors are confident, but they’re not sure if she will be completely okay. It’s still too

early to tell but they say with this type of head injury there might be complications”

That was one of the things I was fucking afraid of. In all honest I just wanted her to be okay.

“Don’t worry though, Ava is strong I’m sure she’ll pull through. I got to go but I’ll call when she

wakes up, the last time she did, she was asking about Noah”

“Okay, Rowan, please keep me informed and make sure she’s getting the best treatment”

“I will”

I hang up after that and watch her. She looks so peaceful and beautiful. Why have I never noticed

how flawless her complexion is? Or how naturally long her eye lashes are? Or how full and red her

lips are

‘Because you never wanted to, you were so focused on hating and blaming her that you never

noticed anything good about her‘ my inner voice whispers. *

I sigh because I know that it’s the truth. I never wanted her so I went to great lengths to block her

out and it had worked until now. This new version of Ava demands attention. Demands to be

noticed.

I take her hand in mine. It’s so small and so soft. I’ve been doing this a lot. Rubbing her wrist and

feeling her pulse just to assure myself that she was still alive. That that bombing had not taken

her from us

Whenever I think of that Sunday, my heart squeezes and I feel like I’m fucking dying. I had called

her to warn her to stay away from Emma. Emma had come to me crying. She told me that Ava had

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lay it on

The

I heard the booming sound and people screaming my breath hitched. I’d been left calling

and that she was badly hurt. I can’t explain how I fucking

myself from those thoughts

to be taken to her house because they couldn’t fit here. Most of them were from her students. Those kids adored Ava, no one needed to be told twice. They visited her in groups

They wouldn’t do all that if she wasn’t a great teacher. Her colleagues

her soft voice pulls

next to her is

up?” Travis asks. His

close to

“No” I reply.

go home, Rowan” Emma says, “Go take a shower and change clothes then you can come back. You look

leaving,

fucking leave. What if something happened and I

if you fall down in exhaustion…just go home, I’m sure it won’t take long for you to look

in “Emma is right,

second”

it didn’t seem like she would wake

don’t leave

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those criminals would try

Emma just looks at me with

leave when Emma grabs my forearm and

stubborn to surrender to death” she says with her smile before

has happened. Since we decided to try again it’s been pecks on the cheek, chin and forehead. Her lips on mine is

are wrong, the feel of them is wrong and the kiss itself is fucking

I be feeling this when Emma is the woman I’ve been craving for nearly

when I received a text from Travis letting me know that Ava had still

nap. I haven’t

I was supposed to sleep for thirty minutes and according to the

I slept

my shoes and rush out after reading a message from Travis.

hate that

limit, I get to the hospital in forty minutes. I was just about to enter her room when I spotted Emma and Travis

told you not to leave her fucking

us out” Emma

you mean ‘she kicked you

do that and despite what she feels towards her family she wouldn’t be cruel enough to kick them out in her time

didn’t want us in her

to demand we leave” Travis

his voice. He was trying so hard to

laugh before

there someone in there with her?” I

she answers. Her eyes

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came a few minutes after we were kicked

harden and jaw lock. That fucking

word, I turn and enter

slightly upwards. Despite the

face.

and the

“Get out” she demands.

she was back to

happen, Ava” I calmly tell her and take a seat

eyes are

happened? 2

want you here, so you could you just fucking leave, and take those two with

of you

and