Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

56. Baby Ava

“What the fuck is he doing here?” Rowan booms, his cold grey eyes shooting daggers at Ethan.

I was really not in the mood deal with his tantrums. Yes he was there for me yesterday, but that doesn’t mean he has a say on who is in my home.

Theo or should I say my dad clears his throat. It was going to take some time to get used to the idea of calling him dad.

The sound of his voice pulls everyone’s eyes to him.

Theo Howell?” Rowan says in surprise but he quickly hides it. “What are you doing here?”

Rowan looks between all of us. His eyes moving from Theo and Nora then back at me. Slowly connecting the dots.

“It’s been a while Rowan, though I can’t say that I am pleased with how you’ve treated my daughter Theo says with a dangerous smile on his lips.

“What he means to say is, we’re downright pissed off with the way you and your family has treated our daughter and we can’t see ourselves having such business partners” Nora adds. She doesn’t smile and for the first time since she came to my house, I feel hostility and hatred radiating off her.

“How’s this possible? Travis has shock written all over his face

Like I said, everyone in the country knows who the Howell’s are. They may like to keep their life private, but they’re still known.

“Oh, trust me darling anything in this world is possible” Nora says glaring at him. Fire burning behind her eyes.

I look at Emma and she too had a shocked expression. Her mouth hang open in disbelief. If she

wasn’t careful she would catch a fly

“Can we just get this over with so that you may all leave?” I ask looking directly at him.

He nods his head and pulls out his laptop. He sets it down and we gather around it. He doesn’t

waste any time skyping mother. Soon her face fills the screen.

“We’re all here mom” Emma tells her and she nods her head.

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“How are you, Ava?” she asks slowly.

I don’t know why she all over sudden cared about me when she hasn’t for more than twenty years

of my life.

“Just say what you want to say, no need for the fake pleasantries”

She looks hurt, but at this point I just don’t care. I wasn’t going to play along to whatever it is she

was trying to do. She was too late to fix was what was broken.

She takes a calming breath before beginning. “You came to us when you were weeks old, but we

didn’t adapt you until you were about fifteen months old”

“What do you mean?”

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wonderful housekeeper. She had worked for

another man’s child. You

were planning to start a family the year he

All that was taken away from her

husband over” she explains.

a child, but didn’t want to ever get

on adaption. About a month after she made that

She was told that the preacher of their church found a baby outside the

anyone wanted to adopt her”

it a coincidence? Was the preacher Winnie’s

grandfather? It was too much

continues. “She took a one week break and went back to her home town to

ended

who the baby’s mother

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the social worker allowed

the paper works for adoption. The baby was a blessing to Winnie, she named her

says looking at me before continuing “I had not

It’s like Ava breathed

like she was

I take a moment to digest what she

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me like you say, why didn’t she raise me? How did I end

family?”

year after she got you, she was

she only had a few months to live. Before she died,

you. We didn’t want to, we already had two

anymore”

happened because I ended

take me in

was two years

I realized it, he was about to cross

time, I screamed in fear, My fear must have alerted

she was or how she moved. She saved Travis that day, but

two months. They amputated

limp since then because of the permanent

letting it out. “We accepted her

much as we tried to compensate her it would never have been enough for saving

what she went through. So when she died,

wish you hadn’t. You should have tossed me in an

been kinder than the

ever having a good memory with them. They

misery.

know how many people would kill to have

Emma ask, sneering me in my

I shut it up for

I slept with

up. It disgusting watching a thirty year

old. Noah behaves more mature than

looks down, her cheeks a shade of

it’s Nora.

were sitting right next to

”