1. 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

is it that no one saw what I saw. No one

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that” I seethed. “There is just something about the man that

you see that?”

office. My fury burning so close to the surface. I was almost losing it. First I hear that Emma threatened Noah and that Travis did nothing. Then

made googly eyes at

a fucking thing. What the hell was wrong with

question anything.

are you talking about?” he asks giving me

sit down with all the fucking emotions

don’t know how to fucking explain it, but there is just something

feel right with

sense, but I can’t

investigating him.

for a while and when he does, I feel like

that you’re jealous of

bellow. “Why the hell would I be jealous of him? I don’t have any

for Ava, remember?”

absurd. I could never be jealous

I’m looking

to her for nine fucking years, it’s hard to stay with

feelings towards them. Especially someone who

shaking my head. “There’s no fucking

her because of Noah.

reason I couldn’t develop any feelings for

his fucking mind. It’s not unusual for people to stay married

change the fact that I wasn’t Ava

after the stunt she pulled to

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so strongly about

cared if she dated

fishy with that cop”

circles and it was only making me more pissed.

he doesn’t. Instead he has

I have feelings for

ago was wrong. We treated her horribly for it, but what if she wasn’t lying when she said she was drunk? What if she was telling the

“That’s impossible”

it? We all wanted you with Emma. We’ll except for Ava. After what happened, we

girl

both of you had made

frozen. What the

his phone and dials

you doing?” I

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