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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She had worked for us

another man’s child. You see, her husband died after seven

planning to start

financially stable. All that was taken away

husband over” she explains.

wanted a child, but didn’t want to ever get married again or have artificial

settled on adaption. About a month after she made that decision, she

their church found a

anyone wanted to adopt

Was it a coincidence? Was

my grandfather? It was too much to be just a

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

but she ended up taking two

who the baby’s mother was and had no identification on

it was probably a scared teen

issue, the social worker allowed Winnie to come back with

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

mother says looking at me before continuing

It’s like Ava

her like she was her

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

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

family?”

a year after she got you, she was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer.

was too late for her and that she only had a few months to

want to, we already had two children

anymore”

because I ended up

me in

was two years

it, he was about to cross the road. There was an incoming

I screamed in fear,

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

for two months. They amputated her right hand because

had a limp since then because of the permanent njury

it out.

to compensate her it would never have

she went through. So when she died, we adopted

look down, muttering. “I wish you hadn’t. You should have tossed me

the life I lived with

memory with them. They were all bad,

misery.

such an ungrateful woman. Do you know how

Emma ask, sneering

I shut it up for

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

disgusting watching a thirty year old woman throwing a

year old. Noah behaves more mature than

surprises everyone. Emma looks down,

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

they were sitting right next to

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