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 started dating

hand in frustration. Why is it that no one saw what I saw. No one realized the truth?

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

you see

burning so close to the surface. I was almost losing it. First I hear that Emma threatened Noah and that Travis did nothing. Then I had to watch while

googly eyes at

so taken by him. So enthralled that she couldn’t see a fucking thing. What the hell was

question anything.

you talking about?” he asks giving me

just couldn’t sit down with all the fucking

how to fucking explain it, but there

doesn’t feel right with

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

investigating him.

a while and when he does, I feel like punching

that you’re

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

for Ava, remember?”

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

looking after him. That’s

were married to her for nine fucking years, it’s hard to stay with someone for that

them.

him in shock, before shaking my

to her because of

I couldn’t develop any

mind. It’s not unusual for

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

pulled to get

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to me why you feel so strongly about her dating Ethan?”

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

understand but looks like he doesn’t. Instead he

feelings for Ava and that I’m

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

“That’s impossible”

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

easier to blame the girl who had been obsessed

both of you had made a mistake”

I stand frozen. What

watch as he takes out his phone and dials a

you doing?” I question him