Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

Chapter 84

  1. My choice

Rowan

I can’t explain the fear I felt when I saw the bastard pointing a gun at her head. She was shaking,

and tears were falling down her face. I heard as she pleaded with him to spare her, but I knew he

wouldn’t.

When she closed her eyes. As if accepting her fate. It nearly brought me to my fucking knees. If it

wasn’t for the fact that I knew she was tired, I would have spared the man just so I could give him

my own personal version of torture.

“She needs a doctor, Rowan” she says in a small voice as I kneel down before her.

I had already texted Gabe. The ambulance would be here in minutes. It’s not that I didn’t care for

Emma; I did. I just cared for Ava more. (2)

I take her face gently into my hands. Her cheek was swollen, and so was her eye. It had already bruised, and her lip was split.

My face hardened at the thought of someone laying their hands on her.

“Who hit you? Was it Ronny” I ask through clenched teeth.

She winces when I run my hand down her bruised cheek. Fuck! Her pain made my heart constrict.

I wanted nothing more than to kill the bastard who hurt her.

“It doesn’t matter… We need to get Emma to a hospital” she says as she begins to stand up.

I push her down gently and continue to inspect her. Totally ignoring what she said. Her wrists were bleeding, and her ankles were swollen and bruised.

The more I took in her wounds, the angrier I got. She shouldn’t have to go through this. Especially not when she was fucking pregnant.

“Rowan, are you not listening to me” Her tone is exasperated, and I know if it weren’t for the fact that she was tired and hurt, she would have thrown a few choice words at me.

“I’m listening, and the ambulance will be here.” I answer. “Now tell me who hurt you.”

She lets out a deep long breath. Sagging in relief against the car

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It was one of Ronny’s men. He hit me when I talked back at him” she tells me tiredly.

“Give me a facial description”

I was going to find the bastard. No one. I mean, no one gets away with hurting Ava. He was going

to regret the day he was fucking born.

It doesn’t matter. When I escaped, he found us first. I kneed him in the balls, then shot both his

thighs

I can’t help the small smile that forms on my lips. I liked this side of Ava. Loved that she was no

longer willing to take crap from anyone.

Before I could ask why she thought escaping was a good idea, we heard the sirens, shouts, and

shots. Gabe, Travis, and the paramedic reach us moments later.

paramedics take Emma from Ava’s lap

one of them

Ava hesitate a little

to escape. I tried to stop

and finally lost–consciousness.” Her eyes

be alright?” she asked, her voice full of

is one of the things I’ve come to love about her. Emma

but that d

her from worrying about her. She was a fucking angel, and

me this long to figure that

is a bit weak, but she’ll be

her

okay, Ava?” Travis asks her.

a low voice as she

needs you

head before bending down to kiss her cheeks. I know it’s from the fact

that she doesn’t push him away. Otherwise, her reception would have been entirely

leaves, and I give Gabe the signal to follow

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help?” I question after watching

please” she answers, looking at me tiredly.

pick her up. Hugging her close to my

being carried” Her argument lacks her normal fire backing it up. It goes to show

to me. It felt right with her in my arms like this. Like everything in the fucking universe

be this close to her. To hold her, hug her or kiss her. I always held a part of myself hidden from her. So it makes me wonder if, had I allowed myself, would it have felt like this? Like she was the missing

my soul?

my

fucking see that

get most of the Reapers, but

news.

want to pound someone. The fact that he keeps evading us makes me

there, none

I snap before walking

get to my car and gently drop Ava in the front seat.

the hospital.

are we going?”

sure you and the baby are

leaning back against the seat. It doesn’t take us long to get to the hospital. By the time

before waking her up. I didn’t mind

to

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say when she opens her

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I take her into my arms and carry her in. As soon as the nurses notice us,

of her and call you immediately we have news”

put her

she tells me before they wheel

that. I don’t say a lot. Just demand that they

the hospital.

Noah. The moment I got the call from Ronny, I asked them

Travis and Kate.

I ask

“Not yet” Travis answers.

is she?” Kate

to make sure everything

me of everything that happened after James died. It reminded me of how I was overcome with emotion after seeing Emma

nine years.

gone back in time. Back to the time when she meant the world to me. I

had dived for Emma instead. Ava became different after that event. It’s like the Ava we knew had died and

same thing if the roles had been reversed. I bet that was her wake–up call. It took seeing me rush to

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