Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

28. Lucky woman

Anonymous POV.

I am pissed off. That is an understatement. I am beyond pissed off, I was downright furious. Once

again she managed to escape me. Once again she survived when she was supposed to be dead.

“Tell me how the hell she’s still alive?” I ask Ben.

“I swear I almost had her this time, I was this close to ending her but her bastard bodyguard

arrived and saved her” he muttered.

Did the guy think that I was stupid? That I didn’t know what the hell happened. I have gotten

nothing but excuses from him since this whole operation started. Three times he failed to deliver her dead body. The only thing that was positive about this, is that I haven’t paid him yet. Imagine

if I had paid him and yet he hasn’t delivered.

He was going to get half a million dollars if he got the job done. That money should have

motivated him enough to do his job and finish it within the time limit we agreed.

I take a swig of my whisky. Frustration clawing at me.

“Really? You almost had her, is that the reason why you are bleeding?” I clipped feeling angrier

every minute I talked to the idiot.

“I promise I’ll get her next time. She won’t escape me again” he speaks, his eyes cast to the floor.

“She’s already escaped you thrice!” I boomed, feeling the need to end is pathetic life.

He doesn’t speak. Instead he continues staring at the ground like it was interesting.

He had set me back big time. This job was supposed to be done months ago and yet here we still

are, with Ava alive and breathing.

at his job. That he

him except for empty

is it that you’re unable to kill one fucking woman? How

time is supposed to be the

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fucking know” he snarls, frustration written all over his face. “Killing someone has

pacing in agitation. This was supposed to be easy. She was in my way. The only thing that was standing between me and what I wanted. I had hatched this plan the

wanted I needed

was to have cops on my back after I went through all that trouble to get her out of my way. An opportunity to

it was all a ploy. That the Reapers‘

Ben and then me. I didn’t go through all this trouble just to lose

end.

glass and

of time. Right now I was supposed to be enjoying the fruits of my labor. I

the life, but instead I was not anywhere close to my goals. In fact it

away

one last chance”

sneer, “So you can fail

about the Ava that death doesn’t seem to

by the looks of things it seems there is someone above looking after her.

their life

bitch I’ve ever met. Her luck was

but

to see you do better” he scoffs, interrupting my

like that, my anger reaches its limit. Grabbing whatever

on, I throw it in his direction. He doesn’t get a chance to duck. The

straight on

eye. His

to repeat what you just

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and clenches his teeth. Looking at me with unconcealed anger,

how to keep his

out quickly. I’ve already wasted

more to myself.

I needed her dead

afraid that the more I tried killing her and she survived, the

can’t happen, because it

she has already proved that she isn’t easy to kill. If we add

is receiving protection from her