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 the truth?

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just something about the man that isn’t

of you

close to the surface. I was almost losing it. First I hear that

googly eyes

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.

you talking about?” he asks

pacing. I just couldn’t sit down with all the fucking emotions

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

doesn’t feel right

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

investigating him.

nothing for a while and when he does, I feel like punching the

it be that you’re jealous of

would I be jealous of him? I don’t have any

for Ava, remember?”

be jealous when it comes to Ava. She is my

looking after

for nine fucking years, it’s

towards them. Especially someone who

shaking my head. “There’s

to her because of Noah. My heart always

reason I couldn’t

had completely lost his fucking mind. It’s not unusual for people

change the fact that

to get me to sleep

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you feel so strongly about her dating Ethan?” he

you! I wouldn’t have cared if

fishy with that cop”

only making me more

Instead he has this stupid notion that

have feelings for Ava and

horribly for it, but what if she wasn’t lying when she said she was drunk? What

“That’s impossible”

Emma. We’ll except for Ava.

It was easier to blame the girl

accept that both of you had

stand frozen. What

he takes out his phone

doing?” I question

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