Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

47. That night

Rowan

“What the hell happened to you?” Gabe asks looking at the ice pack that was plastered to my face.

“Ethan” I just grunt. Not in the mood to deal with my brother.

Fuck! I still can’t believe that I got into a fight with the fucking idiot. I was just so pissed and I let

his words get to me.

“The cop?” He asks curiously. “Ava’s new man?”

At that I blow. I take the ice pack and throw it against the wall.

“He’s not her fucking man” I snap standing up.

My emotions were raw and close to the surface. I still don’t understand why Ava can’t see that the

fucker is a fraud.

I haven’t been able to get anything deeper about him. The reports paint him as an okay guy.

Nothing out of the ordinary, but my gut tell me otherwise. There was just something about him

that rubbed me wrong. Something that he was hiding. My gut has never been wrong before.

“From what I hear, he is…what happened?”

I take a deep breath, trying to cool down the fire burning inside me.

“We were helping Ava move furniture into her new house and he told me to back off. Said that she

was his and he wasn’t going to allow me to ruin things” I admit finally.

Gabe stares at me like he can’t believe what I just said. Like I was trying to figure out what the

hell was wrong with me.

“Seriously? That’s what made you get into a fight with him”

“Yes!”

He sighs before sitting down. “In case you haven’t noticed, she’s no longer your wife and given that

he is dating her, he has every reason to ask you to back off. Isn’t that the same thing you asked of

when you started dating

fist my hand in frustration. Why is it that no one saw what I saw. No one realized the truth?

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that” I seethed. “There is just something about the man that isn’t fucking

none of you see that?”

pacing my home office. My fury burning so close to the surface. I was almost losing it. First

googly eyes at each

the hell was wrong with her? She’s the most cautious person I know, yet she let

question anything.

talking about?” he asks giving me his

sit down with all the

know how to fucking explain it, but there is just

doesn’t feel

sense, but I can’t

investigating him.

says nothing for a while and when he does, I feel like punching the

that

would I be jealous of him? I don’t have any

for Ava, remember?”

could never be jealous when it comes to Ava. She is

I’m looking after

years, it’s hard to stay with someone for that

not develop any feelings towards them. Especially someone

stare at him in shock, before shaking my

to her because of Noah. My heart always belonged

reason I couldn’t develop any

his fucking mind. It’s not unusual for

Nine years couldn’t change the fact

stunt she pulled to get

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to me why you feel so strongly about her dating

you! I wouldn’t have cared if she dated

fishy with that cop”

round in circles and it was only making me more pissed. I thought at least

like he doesn’t. Instead he has this stupid

I have feelings for Ava

first to admit that what Ava did nine years ago was wrong. We treated her horribly for it, but what if she wasn’t lying when

“That’s impossible”

with Emma. We’ll except for Ava. After what happened,

to blame. It was easier to blame the girl who had been obsessed with

that both of you

frozen. What

watch as he takes out his

doing?” I