Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

59. A surprise

It’s been a month since the whole thing with Ethan happened. Am I okay? Definitely not. Does it

still hurt? Fuck yes. Have I moved on? Absolutely not.

Things haven’t been easy. Every day I find myself drowning further and further in a sea of pain and heartache. I thought I was doing okay when I decided to move on with Ethan. I realize now

that I was probably just lying to myself.

Ethan’s betrayal has drenched up all the other pains I tried burying. All the hurts I tried

forgetting. It was like I was now back to square one. Only thing is that I had a few more new scars

marring my heart and soul.

I go through the days in a fog. Just living numbly. Time and things pass me by because I wasn’t

really living. I am just surviving. Taking each day one at a time.

Everyone seems to have moved on, but I feel like I am just stuck. Stuck in a never ending cycle of

pain and heartbreak. My world right now is dark and cold and I feel all alone.

“Miss Sharp, are you okay?” Mark, one of my students asks me.

Fuck, I hate that name. It serves as a reminded that the people who gave it to me broke me. I

wanted to change it, but I didn’t know which name to take. I didn’t want to take the Howell’s name

given I don’t know that much about them. There is also the fact that I haven’t spoken to them

since that day at my house.

“Yes, I am…focus on the classwork” I reply to him before looking down at the books on my desk.

I loved teaching, but nowadays it has become like a chore. Every day I come to work, I can’t help

but wish the hours would fly by quickly so that I can go home. I wanted solitude but I wasn’t

getting enough of that with Letty and Rowan checking up on me every damn time.

My students have noticed something is wrong. Classes aren’t as fun as they used to be. I wasn’t as

cheery as I was before. I was like a robot. Lifeless. Because of this some of my students have

started skipping class. I just don’t know how to bring back the old Ava.

‘Instead of trying to bring the old you, why don’t you try to create a new version?‘ an internal voice

asks.

Was that even possible? Creating a new version. A version of me that is different from the child,

teen then woman who has been broken too many times to count.

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or think too deeply about it, the

out of my class without saying a single word to my

lounge. I just want to breathe a little before I have to go to my next class

to anyone

get to the teacher lounge and freeze up. I was expecting it

a groan

rings just as I sit down. Nora’s name flashes. I’ve

Especially given their relationship with Ethan I go to hang up, but

accept button instead

she calls

release the breath

me out. Don’t shut me

at

I wanted to. My mouth refuses to move.

fucking word.

in your life. I want to be

1. you’re hurting and I want to be there for you. I already lost one child,

again just after finding you would kill me”

breaks my heart.

Damn it. I’ve been so emotional these past

slowly. Trying to push back my

“I’ll give you time if that’s what you need, but

carried you in my heart even when I thought you had died. I hope you

be here for you if you need

don’t know if I

reply

just don’t know. What if she’s just looking for someone to

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Of being used. Of

Rowan.

being cold or anything like that towards them. I was just trying to protect

pieces of my heart.

walking towards my

I groan under

junior highschool teacher and she had a

likes to stick her nose in other

shock. “With the

preggo” she finishes with a laugh.

joking, but I freeze in my seat.

fear through every fiber of my

my behavior and frowns. “Are you okay, Ava? You have to know that

right?”

up as panic starts coursing through my body. Rushing out of the lounge, I blindly ran through the hallway till I am out of the school. I immediately jump into my car and speed

of the parking lot.

be happening. Please don’t let it be

think back. Try to do the math, but my mind is

I will probably be pulled

Carol was wrong.

I park my car and rush out.