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

is it that no one saw what I saw. No

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

you see that?”

close to the surface. I was almost losing it. First I hear that Emma threatened Noah and that Travis did

googly eyes at each

a fucking thing. What the hell was wrong with her? She’s the most cautious person I know, yet she let him into her

question anything.

he asks giving me his

just couldn’t sit down with all the

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

doesn’t feel right

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

investigating him.

says nothing for a while and when he does,

that

fuck I am” I bellow. “Why the hell would I be jealous of him? I don’t

for Ava, remember?”

absurd. I could never be jealous when it comes to Ava.

and I’m looking after him. That’s

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

not develop any feelings towards them. Especially someone who isn’t

him in shock, before shaking my head. “There’s no fucking way that

her. I stayed married to her because of Noah.

the reason I couldn’t

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

Nine years couldn’t change the fact

the stunt she pulled to get me to

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feel so strongly about her dating Ethan?” he

fucking told you! I wouldn’t have cared if she dated any other man, but something

fishy with that cop”

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

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

feelings for

the 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 she said

“That’s impossible”

Emma. We’ll except

blame. It was easier to blame the girl

that both of you had made a

at him quietly, I stand frozen. What the fuck had

his phone and

are you doing?” I question