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

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

to the grave. Years passed and still she was

late because she failed her classes. Theo

the gurl he

and I knew how painful it would be

the arrival of your baby only to have them

you. It

but with the love and support of Theo and his parents,

Everything was falling into place. She

another baby. Her hopes were dashed when

to tell her that

age had caused permanent damage to

she couldn’t have children, it broke her, but she

me

fondly about his parents. The love he had was

does Ava fall into all these?” Rowan asks, his eyes

a plane crash, but I came to know that they had

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

their belief turned out to be nothing. It was around

that they had a hidden clause in their will.

left to their granddaughter in the event Theo retired or

knew about their search and the

I had worked for that company since

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I found out that they were right. There

fake everything, including the death of Nora’s

him. Listening to him as

thought it would be an embarrassment if their congregation found

out of wedlock. When she was pregnant it was easy to hide ‘the

once the baby was born,

a baby, so they paid to

her up for

I had to take you out.

you, I got a

hated you including your husband and family, I thought I would be doing them

a woman who would steal and trap

good

that same man that assured me that the night

the same

to live.

breath in through the

first attempt on your life

took it. What better way than to

and you opened your door

me from the beginning and I was

tears me apart.

to me if you

answers to. Why get to know me

would be fun to toy around with you and pay you

were so trusting and gullible, it made things easy for me. Besides that, getting to know was my my plan B. In case those I hired failed, then it would be

was close to you.”

I felt like

all the while he was planning to

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get to know you then destroy you. I didn’t count on

His eyes roaming the room before

first 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 into it. He soon after shuts down. Turning

himself from saying, but I’m too much of a coward

light of everything he