Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

61. Her life line

Rowan

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Fuck run my hand through my hair as I watch her sleep. Tears tracks were still visible on her

cheeks and it breaks me seeing her so broken.

Ava has always been fucking good at hiding her feelings. Today she didn’t and it was fucking raw

It was drowning her and without even her realizing it, she was drowning me along with her.

I take a seat near her sleeping form. I push my fingers through her hair as I massage her scalp

gently. How the fuck have I never realized how soft and thick her hair is? It was bliss just

touching it.

She sighs in her sleep in contentment. Her face relaxed. All the pain from earlier melted away. In

her sleep, she’s at a peace. She doesn’t have shadows accosting her.

I know it’s fucking creepy, but watching her sleep has become my favorite thing. I did the same

thing yesterday and here I am doing it today. She’s so beautiful it hurts. Even with dark under

eyes, she’s still stunning. I don’t know the fuck I ever thought she couldn’t compare to Emma.

I softly kiss her cheeks before standing up. I am reluctant to leave. I fight the part of me that

wants to pull the covers and slide in next to her. I don’t know where this need is coming from. It

was never there when we were married. Back then, I didn’t want her next to me. I always avoided

cuddling. Right now though, it’s all I can fucking think of.

I force myself to leave her room and walk out of her house. Taking a breath, I contemplate going

back, but I don’t. I know she won’t appreciate me being in bed with her. She might have accepted

my comfort, but that doesn’t mean she’s forgiven me for my part in hurting her.

I haven’t even asked for her forgiveness for heaven’s sake. I should and I will. I just need her to be

more stable when I do. 2

phone and call my

club” I tell him before

don’t have to wait for his reply. I just know that he

look before I jump into my car and drive away. About half

clubs. I enter through the VIP entrance

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the bouncer greets I nod

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was loud and it was giving me a headache. Moving fast as the bouncer parts

ane, we get to my private booth where things are much

It’s not

get

personal bartender walks in with my drink and hands it to me. I don’t have to

he already knows. Just like he knows what Gabe and

you in such foul mood?” Gabe asks walking

While he’s the outgoing and social one. I’m the

antisocial twin.

mumble leaning back in

the fucking image of Ava on the cliff. The way she was so

she took a hesitant step forward. The

ever felt. It

I saw my fucking life flash

more than to

done if I had been late. I don’t know why, but I know that

my heart would have died

know you better than you know

name slips out of my

“You care about her”

course I fucking care about her. She’s the

was frustrating me. She was spiraling out of control

didn’t know how to be what she needs. I’ve spent

know what makes her

more than that big brother, you just refuse to open your fucking eyes and

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about that one issue. That my concern for Ava stem from

about that. I think I would fucking know if I was

about her, and I have feelings I can’t describe,

he asks when I don’t

“She’s pregnant

wide eyes and an open

pregnant for?” I

with that bastard’s baby just made everything more real. I had been blocking the knowledge that she had slept with

wanted to kill Ethan for touching what’s mine. After that I blocked it out. Tried pretending that it didn’t happen

could calm myself down. Her pregnancy now was proof that she did sleep with another

hurts and drives me insane knowing that.

I was planning to woe Emma and marry her later on. Yet now that I know that Ava had moved on.