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

you started

frustration. Why is it that no one saw what

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is just something about the man that isn’t fucking

you

fury burning so close to the surface. I was almost losing it. First I hear that Emma threatened Noah

made googly eyes at

was so taken by him. So enthralled that she couldn’t see a fucking thing. What the hell was wrong with her? She’s the most cautious person I know, yet she let him

question anything.

are you talking about?” he asks giving me

sit down with all the fucking emotions inside

it, but there is just

doesn’t feel

can’t ignore the feeling. That’s why I have

investigating him.

while and when he does, I

that

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

for Ava, remember?”

be jealous when it comes to Ava. She

and I’m looking after him.

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

feelings towards them. Especially someone

before shaking my head. “There’s no

I stayed married to her because of Noah.

I couldn’t develop

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

other. Nine years couldn’t change the fact that

not after the stunt she pulled to get me to sleep with

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feel so strongly about

have cared if she dated any

fishy with that cop”

only making me more

like he doesn’t. Instead he has this stupid notion that

have feelings for

what Ava did nine years 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”

Emma. We’ll

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

both of you had made

frozen. What the fuck

his phone and dials a

you doing?” I