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

you started

my hand in frustration. Why is it that no

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

none of you see

burning so close to the surface. I was almost losing it. First

Ava made googly eyes

that she couldn’t see a fucking thing. What the hell was wrong with her? She’s the most

question anything.

are you talking about?” he asks giving me his whole

just couldn’t sit down with all the fucking

how to fucking explain it, but there is just something

feel right with

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

investigating him.

he does, I feel

it be that you’re

hell would I be jealous of

for Ava, remember?”

never be jealous when it comes to Ava.

and I’m looking after him.

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

feelings towards them. Especially

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

stayed married to her because of Noah. My

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

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

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

to get me to sleep with her.

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

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

fishy with that cop”

it was only making me more pissed.

like he doesn’t. Instead

I have feelings for Ava and

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

“That’s impossible”

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

to blame. It was easier to blame the girl who had been obsessed

accept that both of you had made a mistake”

frozen. What the

watch as he takes out his phone and

you doing?”