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

in frustration. Why is it that no one

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I seethed. “There is just something about

of you

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

Ava made googly eyes

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

question anything.

talking about?” he asks giving me his

pacing. I just couldn’t sit down with all

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

doesn’t feel right

can’t ignore the feeling.

investigating him.

a while and when he does, I feel like punching the

be that

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

for Ava, remember?”

could never be jealous

and I’m looking

you were married to her for nine fucking years, it’s hard

them. Especially someone who

at him in shock, before shaking my

stayed married to her because of Noah. My heart always

the reason I couldn’t develop

It’s not unusual for

love each other. Nine years couldn’t change the

she pulled to get me to sleep with

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

have cared if she dated any other

fishy with that cop”

circles and it was only making me more pissed. I

looks like he doesn’t. Instead he

feelings for

ago was wrong. We treated her horribly for it, but

“That’s impossible”

you with Emma. We’ll except

easier to blame the girl who

accept that both of you

quietly, I stand frozen. What the fuck had gotten

watch as he takes out his phone and dials a

you doing?”

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