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”

about why he was here. The last

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

him hesitate and my curiosity gets stronger. Travis has always

him this nervous in front of me was

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

question why I even gave him a

on his sorry ass.

to Nora and Theo” he finally

straining to hear him.

“About what?”

after us. Making almost all investors

brokenly. “The company is sinking, Ava.

and funds” (2

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

the

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

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

It means he has tried everything and talking to

if that company sinks or

my ches

worn out. Like he has been burning

Then again, I told her

Travis in my presence.

beg you.

has my hackles

we family, Travis? If I remember correctly you cut

me as your sister years ago. Then you went

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“Ava.*

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don’t want to hear

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

to pieces because I hurt you precious sister, did you

said I deserved the pain I was

and mother ignored me like I didn’t matter? What

I still

what is there to say anyway? He knows the truth.

To him and the rest I was

to get rid

your family back then, what makes you

trying to do

eyes pierce his. I used to note the difference between us. Travis and Emma didn’t look

could guess that they’re related. I on the other

have been the first clue

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

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

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

minutes before I hear his car

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

them. Planning to