Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

29. A kiss

Ava.

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I am still recovering from my attack. I am mentally and physically battered and I just want all this

to be over. Three times someone has tried to kill me. Three times I managed to survive. I just don’t

know when my luck will run out because at this point whoever wants me dead seems hell–bent on

making sure I don’t see Noah again.

I shiver when I remember how close to meeting my maker I had been. He had been right there in

my house. He’d planned to rape me there before killing me. Tears fill my eyes and it takes

everything in me not to let them fall.

I’ve cried enough this past few days. I was tired of it, but I just didn’t understand why. Why would

anyone want me dead? I haven’t wronged anyone, well except for Emma. Even with her, she was

now with Rowan so that should have absolved me of my sins. I didn’t deserve what was happening

to me.

My greatest fear was that they succeed. It would mean that I don’t get to see my boy growing up.

That I would miss all the milestones in his life and it saddened me. The thought of that potential

future broke my heart into a million different pieces.

“Are you okay miss?” someone asks me.

I look up to find an elderly woman staring at me with concern. Her kind eyes assessing my face. It

was still a bit bruised but at least the swelling had gone down. Now I just had the healing lip,

black eye and purple cheek.

“I’m okay, thank you” I try to smile, but I just don’t feel like it.

I’ve been in a kind of funk since my attack happened. I’m just going through the motions. Nothing

feels real, it all just feels like a bad dream. I was still waiting for myself to wake up. Deep down I

know that this is real, but a part of me thinks if just pretend then it will all go away.

me to call someone

only everyone was like this woman, then the world would be a better place. I’m

approached me in the middle of an isle in a store

is no need. I’m okay, just a bit

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me skeptically. I force myself to smile. I

to be

my hand. “Things will get

a sigh of relief before going back to looking at the rows of soup

annoying mocking voice cause me to turn

in any mood

ignore her, but like always it seems like she

someone finally put your in place when you tried

secretary sneers.

baiting me and

me. Someone had managed to leak the story and the media had been

find out about the previous attempts on my

out who had leaked the story after he had

has never liked me. She would always take any chance she got to

when I told him she was a bitch to me. He

her side, claiming that I’m the

achieve when I know you know full well exactly

to me” I tell

to achieve anything just stating facts. I wouldn’t be surprised if whoever

stealing her man, after all, that’s what

men because

body then back up.

had gone a few rounds

years and you still tell me the same things, don’t you ever come up with

same shit over and over again”

Probably because I

on Rowan’s bad side. This time though, I had nothing

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an evil smile. “How does it feel to lose Rowan?

he’s with

go of him. I’m slowly starting to kill the love I have for him. It also helps that Ethan

out of the way thinking Rowan will notice you. Even when we were married, you tried your best to seduce him but he never reciprocated. Sure, he didn’t love me but I was his wife while you were nothing but a mere secretary one he had no interest in. So, I pose the same question back, how does it feel to know you will never be his woman? That he will never see you as anything other than his secretary. How does it feel to know that he doesn’t consider you woman enough? That he preferred to fuck me even though he hated me rather than take you as his mistress? And how does

bitch!” she snarls

her in time and she

at me. I don’t think when I take

throw it at her.

as it drenches her dress. Both of us staring

comes at me. Seething and screaming like a banshee. I take whatever

throw it

small crowd and one or two of them had their

someone grabs her by the waist. Another on grabs me and pulls

in the opposite direction.