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

out my phone and call my twin. He picks up on the first

club” I tell him before hanging up.

reply.

one last look before I jump into my

of my clubs. I enter through the VIP entrance that’s only meant for me, Gabe and any

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I nod

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it was giving me a headache. Moving

we get to my private booth where things are

the entrance. It’s not once or twice that women tried gate

to 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

you in such foul

younger than me by three minutes. While he’s the outgoing and social one. I’m the

antisocial twin.

leaning back in my

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

hesitant step forward. The

like I’ve ever felt. It was tangible and it

saw my fucking life flash before my eyes.

wanted nothing more than to piece her

know what I would have done if I had been late. I don’t know why, but I know

my heart would have

know you better than you know yourself brother” he takes a seat opposite

slips out of my mouth in an anguished

“You care about her”

about her. She’s the

me. She was spiraling out of control and I just

know how to be what she needs. I’ve spent so much time pushing

what makes her

you just refuse to open your fucking

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

deeper We keep arguing about that. I think I would fucking know if I was in

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

when I don’t say anything

“She’s pregnant

stares and me with wide eyes and

she pregnant for?”

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

out, there was this primal part of me that wanted to kill Ethan for touching what’s mine. After that I blocked it out. Tried pretending that it didn’t happen because that’s

myself down. Her pregnancy now was proof that she

fucking hurts and drives me

wanted her to move on. I wanted her to leave me alone. I was planning to woe Emma and marry her later on.