Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

53. Not siblings

I sit next to Rowan frozen. My mind unable to comprehend what Ethan just told me. First of all

James and Kate Sharp weren’t my parents. Second, he claimed to be my brother.

“What?” I scream as the impact of his words finally sink in. “You slept with me knowing you’re my brother? That’s fucking disgusting“. <

“You slept with him? Why would you sleep with him?” Rowan boom, a dangerous aura filling the

room. Suffocating the atmosphere around us.

I give him a withering look. “That’s none of your business“.

My thoughts were occupied with Ethan’s revelation. If what he said was the truth, then it meant I

had S** with my brother, and he had S** with me knowing the truth.

I felt bile rising up at that thought. Feeling utterly disgusted. What kind of a sick bastard does

that? Why would you sleep with someone knowing very well that you were blood related?

The more I got to know about Ethan, the more I wondered if he had been acting all along.

“You aren’t my sister” Ethan speaks up.

“But you just said that Nora and Theo are your parents” I point out.

“I told you I was adapted. That part was true. They did adapt me after my father was killed. We

aren’t blood related, so we didn’t commit incest.” He smirks then winks “I can however say, I loved

it every time you screamed my name”

I am mortified. My cheeks turn pink, and I look down.

Even if we weren’t blood related, it didn’t make what he did right. If he’s telling the truth then he

shouldn’t have slept with me at all.

I feel Rowan tense beside me, but I ignore him. It didn’t make sense why his hands were fisted and

his jaw clenched.

Brian clears his throat. The sound cuts through the tense and awkward atmosphere.

“If you said Nora’s baby died, why then are you claiming Ava is that baby?” Brian asks, bringing me back to the present.,

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“Yeah it makes no sense Gabe adds

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It was true. There is no way Nora and Theo are my parents. If the doctors told them that the baby

died then that’s probably true. Besides, he did say that the baby wasn’t responsive after birth, and

Nora witnessed this herself before she passed cut

“That’s what they she believed. She even held a small ceremony and buried the baby. It was

months of heartache for the two of them, especially Nora. She fell into depression and had to be

a psychiatric facility

same after that news. It’s like she lost the will to

to the grave. Years passed and still she was struggling. Her grades dropped

failed her classes. Theo was with her

see the gurl

know the woman, but I was a mother, and I knew how painful it would

imagine the pain of anticipating the

It would have

and support of Theo and his parents,

when they were twenty two. Everything

Her hopes were dashed when she was told

failed to tell her that

had caused permanent damage

couldn’t have children, it broke her, but

got me. They gave me

he talked fondly about his parents. The love he had

all these?” Rowan asks, his

plane crash, but I came to know that they had been looking into

Turns out they believed there was foul play. They didn’t

in case their belief turned out to be nothing. It was around that

that they had a hidden clause in their will.

their company was left to their granddaughter in the event Theo retired or God

about their

that. I had worked for that company since I was twenty five. I

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shock when I found out that they were right. There was foul

to fake everything, including the

Listening to him as everything

would be an embarrassment if their congregation found out that

it was easy

left Theo’s estate, but once the baby was born, things

to have the death of their granddaughter

up

to take

asking about you, I got

family, I thought I would be doing them

who would steal and trap her sisters boyfriend

or good for

can’t believe that same man that

years ago wasn’t my fault, is the same man that thought

to live.

try to breath in through

on your life wasn’t on me, but I took the

to get close to you and I took it. What better way than to

you opened

hurts so much. To know he played me from the

tears me apart.

need to get close to me if

wanted answers to. Why get to

fun to toy around with you and pay you back

to know was my my plan B. In case those I hired failed, then it would

was close to you.”

felt like

all the while he was

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supposed to be easy, get to know you then destroy you. I didn’t

can finish the sentence. His eyes roaming

time since we found the truth, something passes in his eyes Guilt? Love? I can’t tell because it was too quick for me to read

saying, but I’m too much of a coward to

everything he has done,