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”

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

mother revealed the truth about how I came to

gets stronger. Travis has always been arrogant and

nervous in

have all day” I snap after

question why I even gave him a chance

on his sorry ass.

to Nora and Theo” he finally speaks, but it was so

straining to hear him.

“About what?”

Corp. They’ve gone after us. Making almost all investors who are in

says brokenly. “The company is sinking, Ava. We are

and funds” (2

thought mom and dad’s threat was just that, a threat. I

after the

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

begging me to help

tried everything and talking to me is the last and

if that company sinks

my ches

worn out. Like he has

hasn’t mentioned anything about this to me. Then again, I told

Travis in my presence.

I beg you. We’re

that word has my hackles up. Bringing

“How are we family, Travis? If I remember

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

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“Ava.*

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cut him off. I don’t want to hear

you took Emma’s side, every time you treated me

my heart to pieces because I

times you said I deserved the pain I was going through? Or

ignored me like I didn’t matter? What about all the time you all shunned

I still your

to

then. To him and the rest I was nothing

to get

your family back then, what makes you

to do by playing the family card with me won’t

his. I used to note the difference between

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

been the first clue that I wasn’t one

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

use me, but I won’t let you. Go home, Travis and don’t ever darken

hard. I lean against

his car start

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

I take them. Planning to pass by