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

in frustration. Why is it that no one saw what

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I seethed. “There is just something about the man

none of you see that?”

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

googly eyes at

see a fucking thing. What the hell was wrong with her? She’s the most cautious person I know, yet

question anything.

talking about?” he asks giving me

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

to fucking explain it, but there is just

doesn’t feel right

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

investigating him.

he does, I feel like punching the crap out

it be that you’re

hell would I

for Ava, remember?”

never be jealous when it comes to Ava. She is

and I’m looking after him.

years,

feelings towards them. Especially

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

her. I stayed married to her because of Noah. My heart always

that. That’s the reason I couldn’t develop any feelings for

not unusual for people to stay married even

years couldn’t change the

stunt she pulled to get me to sleep

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explain to me why you feel so strongly about

wouldn’t have cared if she

fishy with that cop”

round in circles and it was only making me

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

I have feelings for Ava and that

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

“That’s impossible”

Emma. We’ll except for Ava. After what

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

you had

him quietly, I stand frozen. What the fuck had gotten into

his phone

doing?” I question