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.

+15 BONUS

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

if I said I wasn’t curious about why he was here. The last time I

about how I came to be a Sharp.

stronger. Travis has always

nervous in front of me was

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

him a chance to speak.

on his sorry ass.

you could talk to Nora and Theo” he

straining to hear him.

“About what?”

us. Making almost all investors who are in their contact to

company” he says brokenly. “The company is sinking, Ava.

and funds” (2

mom and dad’s threat was just

actually go after the Sharps for

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

here, basically begging me to help him means

he has tried everything and talking to me is the

don’t really care if that company sinks or not” I

my ches

looked tired and worn out. Like he has been

hasn’t mentioned anything about this to me. Then again, I told her never to speak about

Travis in my presence.

I beg you.

my hackles up. Bringing the familiar

“How are we family, Travis? If I remember correctly you cut me off. You said

you and renounced me as your sister years ago. Then you went and proved

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“Ava.*

+15 BONUS

cut him off. I don’t want to

you treated me like trash. Every fucking

my heart to pieces because I

family? What about the times you said I deserved the pain I was going

I didn’t matter? What about all the time

still

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

rest I was nothing but an

anything to get rid

consider me your family back then, what

you are trying to do by playing the

I used to note the difference

by just seeing them you could guess that they’re related.

of them. That should have been the first clue that

about me. The only reason you’re here is because

you. Go home, Travis and don’t

away and slam the door hard. I lean against it breathing hard. Its quiet for

I hear his car start up

escape the house, I take my car keys. I was just leaving when I

Rowan bought. I take them. Planning to pass by a shelter