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

fist my hand in frustration. Why is it that no one saw what I saw. No one realized

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is just something about the

of you see

so close to the surface. I was almost losing it. First I hear that Emma threatened Noah and

made googly

was wrong with her? She’s the

question anything.

you talking about?” he

pacing. I just couldn’t sit down with all

explain it, but

doesn’t feel right

make any fucking sense, but I can’t ignore the

investigating him.

he does, I feel like punching

it be that

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

for Ava, remember?”

absurd. I could never be

and I’m looking

for nine fucking years, it’s hard to stay with

not develop any feelings towards them.

shaking my head. “There’s

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

the reason I couldn’t develop any

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

other. Nine years couldn’t change the

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

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why you feel so strongly about her dating

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

fishy with that cop”

was only making me more pissed. I

doesn’t. Instead he has this

for Ava and that

Ava did nine years ago was wrong. We treated her horribly for it, but what if she wasn’t lying when

“That’s impossible”

with Emma. We’ll except

to blame the girl who had been obsessed

that both of you had made a mistake”

frozen. What the

as he takes out his phone and dials a phone

are you doing?” I question

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