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

it that no one saw what I saw. No one realized

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

of 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

made googly eyes at

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 life

question anything.

about?” he asks giving

couldn’t sit down with

how to fucking explain it, but there is just something I don’t like about

doesn’t feel right with

but I can’t ignore the feeling.

investigating him.

he does, I feel

be that you’re

am” I bellow. “Why the hell would I be

for Ava, remember?”

never be jealous when it comes

I’m looking

her for nine fucking years, it’s hard to

not develop any feelings towards them. Especially someone

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

to her because of Noah. My heart always belonged to

I couldn’t develop any feelings for

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

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

pulled to

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explain to me why you feel so strongly

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

fishy with that cop”

circles and it was only making me more

doesn’t. Instead he has this stupid notion that I’m

I have feelings for Ava and

what Ava did nine years ago was wrong. We treated her horribly for it,

“That’s impossible”

We’ll except for

easier to blame the girl who had been obsessed

both of you had made

stand frozen.

watch as he takes out his phone and

doing?” I question