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 dating

hand in frustration. Why is it that no

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

of you see

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

Ava made googly eyes at each

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

question anything.

about?” he asks giving me

couldn’t sit down with all the fucking emotions

explain it, but

feel right with

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

investigating him.

for a while and when he does, I feel like

be that you’re jealous of

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

for Ava, remember?”

was absurd. I could never be jealous

I’m looking after

nine fucking years, it’s hard to

any feelings towards them. Especially someone who isn’t truly

him in shock, before shaking my

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

that. That’s the reason I couldn’t develop

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

years couldn’t change the fact that I

to get me to sleep with

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me why you feel so strongly about her

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

fishy with that cop”

were going round in circles and it was only

doesn’t. Instead

I 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?

“That’s impossible”

Emma. We’ll except for Ava. After

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

you had made a

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

his phone and dials a

doing?”