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”

would be lying if I said I wasn’t curious about why he

mother revealed the truth about how I came to

my curiosity gets stronger. Travis has

in front of me

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

was starting to question why I even gave him a chance to speak. I should have

on his sorry ass.

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

straining to hear him.

“About what?”

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

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

and funds” (2

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

the Sharps for what

is anything that Travis loves more than anything,

here, basically begging me to help

It means he has tried everything and talking to

if that company sinks or not” I state,

my ches

Like he has been burning

mentioned anything about this to me. Then again,

Travis in my presence.

Ava. I beg you. We’re family”

has my hackles

scoff. “How are we family, Travis? If I remember

your sister years

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“Ava.*

+15 BONUS

cut him off. I don’t want to

took Emma’s side, every time you treated

heart to pieces because I hurt

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

didn’t matter? What about all the

still your

doesn’t say anything. But what is there to say anyway? He knows

the rest I was nothing but an

anything to get

me your family back then, what makes you think I’ll

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

the difference between us.

them you could guess that they’re

of them. That should have been the first

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

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

push him away and slam the door hard. I lean

his car start up

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

Planning to