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

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

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

you see that?”

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

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 into her

question anything.

about?” he asks giving

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

fucking explain it, but there is

doesn’t feel right with

doesn’t make any fucking sense, but I can’t ignore the feeling. That’s why

investigating him.

while and when he does, I feel like punching the

be that you’re jealous of

I bellow. “Why the hell would I be jealous of him? I

for Ava, remember?”

be jealous when it comes to

I’m looking after him.

fucking years, it’s

towards them. Especially someone who isn’t truly

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

I stayed married to her because of Noah. My heart always belonged to Emma and

reason I couldn’t develop any feelings for

had completely lost his fucking mind. It’s not unusual

years couldn’t change the fact that I wasn’t

after the stunt she pulled to get me to sleep with

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feel so

wouldn’t have cared if she dated

fishy with that cop”

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

Instead he has this stupid notion

for

wrong. We treated her horribly for it, but what if she

“That’s impossible”

Emma. We’ll except for Ava. After

the girl who had been obsessed

both of you had made a

I stand frozen. What the fuck

as he takes out his

are you doing?”