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 us for years. She wanted a family

herself bearing another man’s child. You

were planning to start a family the

stable. All that was taken away

husband over” she explains.

didn’t want to ever get married again or have artificial insemination

a month after she made

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

wanted

each other. Was it a

It was too much

and went back to her home town

expected her back a week after, but she ended up taking two weeks, but finally she got

one knew who the

said it was probably a scared teen that

allowed Winnie to

baby was a blessing to Winnie, she

adopted was you” mother says looking at me before continuing “I had not seen

It’s like Ava breathed life back

she was

a moment to digest what she just told us. Winnie seems like a

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

family?”

you, she was diagnosed with stage four

and that she only had a few

didn’t want to, we already had two

anymore”

because I ended up with

you take me in

Travis was two years

to cross the road. There was an incoming

I couldn’t get to him in time, I screamed in fear, My

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

a coma for two months. They amputated her right hand

since then because of the permanent

letting it out. “We accepted

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

So when she died, we adopted

you hadn’t. You should have tossed me in

kinder than the life I

remember ever having a good memory with them. They were all bad,

misery.

ungrateful woman. Do you know how many

led?” Emma ask, sneering me

your fucking mouth Emma before I shut it up for you

heard enough of you stupid comments. I slept with your damn boyfriend, get

watching a thirty year old woman throwing a hissy fight

old. Noah behaves more mature than you

surprises everyone. Emma looks down, her cheeks

feel hands hold me, and realize that it’s Nora. I look up

they were sitting right

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