Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

79. Kidnapped again

Today I wasn’t in the best of moods. Mainly because Noah was still mad at me for kicking Rowan out I thought I had covered things up well. It turns out that he could see past my bullshit.

At times like this, I wish that we hadn’t pretended in front of Noah. I know that we thought we were protecting him. That we were giving him a happy childhood. All we did was deceive him.

Now he has it in his head that we were once in love and that we can be again.

I don’t know how to tell him the truth without breaking his little heart. I don’t know how to tell

him that everything he believes about me and Rowan is a lie.

My biggest fear is that he’ll hate us for lying to him if the truth comes out. Then again we can’t continue like this. We can’t continue with him believing that there is a chance for me and Rowan.

I sigh and get out of bed. I had gone back to sleep after Noah left for school. As the days progress,

the bigger I get and the more tired I feel.

Dragging my feet, I head to the bathroom and take a shower. It still doesn’t take away the fatigue

from my bones. Deciding on a dress, I put on a white spaghetti strap dress with blue flowers on it.

It reached just above my knees and showed my belly. Since my parents now knew the truth about

my pregnancy, it was time to stop hiding it.

Not in the mood to do my makeup, I opt for just concealer to cover up my dark under eyes.

I leave my room and get downstairs just as my doorbell rings.

I was really not in the mood to see or talk to anyone. Not when I was feeling like shit.

I open my front door and wish that I hadn’t. Travis was standing on my door step looking

disheveled. (1

I go to close the door, but he stops it before I can slam it on his face.

“Please Ava” he begs tiredly.

“What do you want?” I ask, my voice cold even to my own ears.

It was really funny how much my voice automatically changes nowadays. I don’t even put any

effort in it. It just grows cold and unattached. As if I was speaking to a total stranger.

“Can I come in?” he asks.

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“Fuck No! Speak what you came here to say and leave”

lying if I said I wasn’t curious about why he was here.

revealed the truth about how I came to be a Sharp.

and my curiosity gets stronger. Travis

him this nervous in front of

out already! I don’t have all day” I snap after a few minutes of him

why I even gave him a chance to

on his sorry ass.

you could talk to Nora and Theo” he finally speaks, but it was so low I had

straining to hear him.

“About what?”

all investors who are in their

company” he says brokenly. “The company is sinking, Ava. We are losing investors,

and funds” (2

sigh. If I were being honest, I thought mom and dad’s threat was just that, a threat.

after the Sharps for what they

anything that Travis loves more than anything, it’s that company. It was and

begging me to help him means he has reached the

tried everything and talking to me

really care if that company sinks or

my ches

out. Like he has been burning both ends of the

about this to me. Then

Travis in my presence.

I beg you. We’re

hackles up. Bringing the familiar angry

we family, Travis? If I remember correctly you cut

as your sister years ago. Then you went and proved

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“Ava.*

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don’t want to hear a thing from

every time you treated me like trash.

tore my heart to pieces because I

times you said I deserved the pain I

didn’t matter? What about all the time

still

say anything. But what is there to say anyway? He

then. To him and the rest I was nothing but an unwanted nuisance. One

to get rid

me, if you didn’t consider me your family back

trying to do by playing the family card with

his. I used to note the

guess that they’re related.

should have been the first clue

honest, you’ve never cared about me. The only reason you’re

let you. Go home, Travis and don’t ever darken my

slam the door hard. I lean against it breathing

before I hear his car start up

take my

them. Planning to pass by a shelter to give them