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

it now before I change my mind”

adore this woman back in my younger days.

realized that she didn’t feel the same

if I was more of a burden,

takes her seat before taking my hands in hers. I pull them away.

me. The part of

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than you’ll ever

to me, then pulling me into her arms. I used to crave it. Pray for it. Hope for the day to come. Now that it’s here, the joy I thought I would feel is nonexistent. I feel absolutely nothing as

embracing you, I pushed you away. You loved me, loved us, but we gave you

before continuing.

best daughter anyone can have. It took almost losing you to realize how

crying. If I was my old self,

tears meant absolutely nothing

of hurting. It can’t be erased by a few drops of

let’s cut to the crap okay? If this is about the threat my mother made on your company, we can discuss it as adults. There is no need for you to try and sweeten me up, that shit won’t work. Instead of all the drama, why don’t you tell me the real reason you wanted us to talk” I tell

emotionlessly.

She’s been hurting me for years. This was nothing compared to

hurt. I was sure that the only

their family

think that of me. That you would think that the only reason I was apologizing was so I could save the company. Then again I have no one to blame but

my own actions that you

her now, you couldn’t tell she was the

to treat me like I didnt matter. It was so weird. We’ve never

she pours out her heart is a

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to build what I shattered I want to win back the love I

want to come off as mean, but first of all you’re 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, I don’t want you in my life. In fact, I would prefer if you and your children continued ignoring me like I didn’t exist. You did it for close to three decades, it shouldn’t be a hardship for