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 last

mother revealed the truth about how I came to be a

him hesitate and my curiosity gets stronger.

this nervous in front of me

don’t have all day” I snap after

even gave him a chance to speak. I should have

on his sorry ass.

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

straining to hear him.

“About what?”

almost all investors who are in their contact to

“The company is sinking, Ava. We are losing

and funds” (2

were being honest, I thought mom and dad’s threat

the Sharps for

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

joy. To have him here, basically begging me to help him means he has reached the

means he has tried everything and talking to me is the last

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

my ches

out. Like he has been

about this to me. Then again, I told her never

Travis in my presence.

Ava. I beg you. We’re family”

my hackles up. Bringing the familiar angry

family, Travis? If I remember correctly you cut me off. You said

renounced me 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 his

Emma’s side, every time you treated

heart to pieces because I hurt you

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

matter? What

still

to say anyway?

him and the rest I was nothing but an unwanted

to get rid

if you didn’t consider me your family back then, what makes you think

to do by playing the family card with me

the difference between us. Travis and Emma

by just seeing them you could guess that they’re related. I on the other hand looked

That should have been the first clue that I wasn’t one of

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

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

I push him away and slam the door hard. I lean against it breathing hard.

hear his car

need to escape the house, I take my car keys. I

to pass by