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 started dating

is it that no one saw what

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is just something about the

of you see that?”

the surface. I was almost losing it. First I hear

made googly

hell was wrong with

question anything.

about?” he asks giving me his whole

sit down with all the fucking

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

feel right with

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

investigating him.

when he does, I feel like punching the crap out of

be that you’re

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 is my

and I’m looking after

years,

feelings towards them. Especially

shock, before shaking my head. “There’s no

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

the reason I couldn’t develop

not unusual for people

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

after the stunt she pulled to get me to sleep with her.

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explain to me why you feel so strongly about her dating

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

fishy with that cop”

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

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

have feelings for Ava and that I’m

years ago was wrong. We treated her horribly for it, but what if she wasn’t lying when she said she was drunk? What

“That’s impossible”

it? We all wanted you with Emma. We’ll except

the girl who had been

that both of you had

stand frozen. What the

he takes out his phone and dials a

doing?” I question

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