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.

don’t look okay…Do you want me

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

an isle in a store because she noticed

I’m okay, just a bit overwhelmed”

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force myself to smile. I was

be

and squeezes my hand.

that she gives me one final look before leaving. I heave a sigh of relief before going back to looking at

like hell” the annoying mocking voice cause

in any mood to deal

but like always it seems

finally put your in place when you tried stealing her

secretary sneers.

She was baiting me and I knew it.

managed to leak the story and the media had been

it. They had also managed to find out about the previous attempts on

who had leaked the story after

would always take any

course Rowan never believed me when I told him she was a bitch to

her side, claiming that I’m the one that probably provoked her first.

sure what you’re trying to achieve when I know you know full well exactly

to me” I tell

not trying to achieve anything just stating facts.

her man, after all, that’s what you are good

because you’re a slut”

body then back up. She looked elegant and impeccable like always

a

still tell me the same things, don’t you ever

It’s tiring hearing the same shit over and over again”

Probably because I talked back. It’s something

of fighting back and getting on Rowan’s bad side. This time though, I had nothing

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quickly and gives me an evil smile. “How does it feel to

that he’s with

go of him. I’m slowly starting to kill the love I have for him.

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

bitch!” she snarls before lunging

and

at me. I don’t think when I take the carton of milk in my

throw it at her.

dress. Both of us staring in shock. With what

cry, she comes at me. Seething and screaming like a banshee. I

throw it

attract a small crowd and one or two of them had their phones out. It was

someone grabs her by the waist. Another on

in the opposite direction.