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

piece, so do it now before I

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

the same way. It

if I was more

hands in hers. I pull them away. Not wanting

near me. The part of me

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Ava More than you’ll ever know” she whispers,

crave it. Pray for it. Hope for the day to come. Now that it’s

and instead of embracing you, I pushed you away. You loved me, loved us, but we gave you nothing but scorn. I wish

before continuing.

you’re the best daughter anyone can have. It

crying. If I was my old self, then

meant absolutely

than twenty five years of hurting. It can’t be erased by a few drops of tears. It just

discuss it as adults. There is no need for you to try and sweeten me up,

emotionlessly.

She’s been hurting me for years. This was nothing compared to what I had to endure at her hands and

hurt. I was sure that the only reason she was here

save their

think that the only reason I was apologizing was

my own actions that you find me so

at her now, you couldn’t tell she was the same woman who used to yell at me for

to treat me like I didnt matter.

she pours out her heart

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to be your mother in every way. I want to

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, I don’t want you in my life. In fact, I would prefer if you and your children continued ignoring