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

when you

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not about that” I seethed. “There is just something about the man that

none of you see that?”

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

made googly

that she couldn’t see a fucking thing. What the hell was wrong with

question anything.

he

sit down with all the

fucking explain it, but there is just

doesn’t feel right with

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

investigating him.

does, I feel like punching the crap

it be that you’re jealous

bellow. “Why the hell would I be jealous of him? I don’t have any fucking

for Ava, remember?”

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

I’m looking after him. That’s

years, it’s hard to stay with someone

towards them. Especially someone who isn’t

my head. “There’s no fucking way that I developed

her. I stayed married to her because of

That’s the reason I couldn’t develop any feelings for

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

don’t love each other. Nine years couldn’t change the fact that I wasn’t Ava

to get me to sleep with

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to me why you feel so strongly

cared if she dated

fishy with that cop”

was only

he doesn’t. Instead he has this stupid notion

have feelings for

treated her horribly for it, but what if she wasn’t lying when she

“That’s impossible”

with Emma. We’ll except for Ava. After what happened,

easier to blame the girl who had been

of you had made a mistake”

frozen. What the fuck

his phone

are you doing?” I

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