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

you

hand in frustration. Why is it that no one saw what I

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

you see that?”

my home 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 I had

googly eyes at

What the hell was wrong with her? She’s

question anything.

are you talking about?” he asks giving

don’t stop pacing. I just couldn’t sit down with all the fucking

it, but there

feel right

make any fucking sense, but I can’t

investigating him.

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

it be that you’re jealous

bellow. “Why the hell would I

for Ava, remember?”

be jealous when it comes to Ava.

and I’m looking after him.

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

them. Especially

my head. “There’s

her because of Noah.

I couldn’t

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

couldn’t change the fact that I wasn’t Ava biggest

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me why you feel so strongly about her dating Ethan?”

cared if she dated any other man, but something

fishy with that cop”

were going round in circles and it was only making me more pissed. I thought

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

have feelings for Ava and

ago was wrong. We treated her horribly for it, but what

“That’s impossible”

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

the girl who had been obsessed with you

accept that both of you had made a

quietly, I stand frozen. What

out his phone

doing?”

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