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 change

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

she didn’t feel the same

as if I was more of a burden, than

taking my hands in hers.

near me. The part of me that had longed for

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More than you’ll ever know” she

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 that it’s here, the joy I thought

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

before continuing.

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

on crying. If I was my old self, then her tears would have moved me. I

meant

More than twenty five years of hurting. It can’t be erased by a few drops of tears. It just doesn’t work like that. It would

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

emotionlessly.

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

she looked hurt. I was sure that the

their family

think that the only reason I was apologizing was so I could save the company. Then again I have

that you find me so

the

didnt matter.

as she pours

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I want to be your mother in every way. I want to build what I shattered I want to win back the love I so carelessly threw away”

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