Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

65 Heart to heart

“Ava can we please talk?” mother pleads when I move to leave.

1 stare at her, not sure what she wanted. What was there to talk about? Hasn’t everything already

been said and done?

“There isn’t anything for us to talk about, Mother” I insist.

Looking back, I see now how I made a distinction when it came to her and father. While Emma and Travis referred to them as mom and dad, to me they were Father and Mother. Clean, cut and

completely impersonal.

I never truly acknowledged them as my parents, because deep down I just knew. Parents don’t hate their children. Parents don’t neglect their child and treat them like shit. I made what I called them impersonal because on a spiritual level, I didn’t consider them my parents.

“Please, I beg you” she pleads with tears in her eyes.

It was so strange looking at her with tears in her eyes. Her face flushed and soft. This is a look I’ve never seen her direct at me. Her face was always in a frown. She always looked at me with a certain cold indifference that was specifically targeted at me.

“How about you show me to our table as they talk?” Martha, Rowan’s mom asks Corrine while

cutting off what I was about to say.

Corrine looks skeptical. Like she didn’t want to leave me. After all, it was known that the Sharp family weren’t my biggest fan even though I was apparently their daughter.

Martha doesn’t give Corrine a chance. Instead she links their hands and pulls her away in the

opposite direction.

I sigh and take my seat. “Let’s just get this over with, looks like you won’t leave me alone until

so do it now before

in my younger days. When I was around five or six. That

that she didn’t feel the same

was more of a

seat before taking my hands in hers. I pull them away. Not

didn’t want her near me. The part of me that had longed for such

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More than you’ll ever know”

saying anything. I keep quiet. I always imagined this moment. Always day dreamed of her apologizing to me, then pulling me into her arms. I used to crave it. Pray for it. Hope for the day to come. Now

but we gave you nothing but scorn. I wish more than anything that I could go back in time and change things.

before continuing.

can have. It took almost losing you to realize how much you mean

If I was my old self, then her

her tears meant

few drops of tears. It just

for you to try and sweeten me up, that shit won’t work.

emotionlessly.

in her eyes, but I don’t care. She’s been hurting me for years. This was nothing compared to what I had to endure at her hands and that

sure why she looked hurt. I was sure that the only reason

their

only reason I was apologizing was so I could save the company. Then again I have no one

my own actions that you find

the same woman who used

like I didnt matter. It was so weird. We’ve never had

sitting here as she pours out her

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want to be your mother in every way. I want to build what I shattered I want to win back the love

not my mother. The DNA test report I have back at home can prove that. Second, that ship sailed a long time ago. You and me? Being close? That will never happen. Lastly,