Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

102. Her side of the story

Mom collapses in the chair after my admission. The heartbroken look in her eyes was undoing

1. me. The disappointed look she gave me nearly made me crumble on the spot.

Travis, who had been holding me, lets go as if I had burned him. He backs away from me slowly

until he’s a few feet away.

I know the rest had varying degrees of shock, but they didn’t matter to me right now. Not when

my family was looking at me like they didn’t know me. Like I was a stranger.

“Please tell me you’re playing a sick joke on me,” Mom pleads. “Tell me you didn’t have a child and

kept him hidden from us all these years.”

I want to lie to them just so the heartbroken and disappointed look in their eyes will disappear. I

know that I can no longer do that. There was no hiding from this. There was no more running from

the truth.

“I’m sorry. So sorry,” I cry as I stumble towards her. “I wanted to tell you, but I was so ashamed.”

I go to take her hand, but she flinches and pulls it away.

This is what I’ve been so afraid of. Ava was right. I was the perfect daughter. The one who never

made any mistakes.

The one that thought things through before, except for that one time. Now their image of me is

tarnished. Now they know that I am just like them. Human. The Ace card I had over Ava was gone. 2

I was in the same boat as Ava. I made mistakes that are now hunting me. Sleeping with Calvin

remains the greatest mistak

y life.

“H–How did this happen? When did it happen…did dad now?” Travis asks as he paces, frustration

clear in his steps.

“Dad didn’t know. No one except Calvin and Molly knew.” I look at the ground, unable to face the

look on my mom’s face.

“Start from the beginning and don’t leave a single thing out. I want to know why the hell you’ve

kept my grandson a secret from his family,” Mom growls, her eyes turning fierce.

I didn’t want to rehash the past, but at this point, I don’t think I had any choice. If I didn’t want

them to be even madder than they were right now, then I had to spill it.

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married Ava, I was broken I tried not

okay because you were all so worried about me. I felt like I

been left with nothing. When

you, but I fell

the grass, feeling as small as I did back then when

with Ava.

fading away. I didn’t eat, I didn’t sleep, and I didn’t attend classes.

She started pushing, and when I refused to get better, she threatened

I didn’t want you to know how I was struggling.

tough things

bitterness and

fallen, she would have been ecstatic.

she had been going through her

well after that. Molly became my anchor. My grades were

every second.” I take a deep

Calvin again. It turns out we went to the same Uni and he was also

assignment partner.” 2

talk to him. After all, we weren’t friends. I tolerated him because

and when he didn’t show any remnants of the obsession he had for me in high school,

him. We co–existed. He stayed out of my way and I stayed out

hard. I wanted to stop, but now more than ever, I

some time.

to let me

in love with his son at first sight. Everything around me crumbled, and

surface.” I try to breathe through the

so fucking hard.

and I was really angry. Angry at myself for

Ava, angry at Ava for getting

I loved and angry at

a sharp intake of air. I don’t need to turn to know that it is from Rowan.

Noah because if everything had gone the way I wanted it to, then he

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me, so that night I approached Calvin and seduced him I knew word would probably get back to Rowan, and that would have hurt him. That’s why I slept with Calvin that night, because I counted on Rowan’s friend telling him. He would have been so hurt, I

how I lost my virginity. I was saving it for Rowan and in the end I gave it to the guy who kept fighting

man I loved. I told Calvin that it was a mistake and that he should forget about what happened between us.

for what was to come next. What destiny had planned

1. us.

went back to ignoring each other like the other didn’t exist, that is, until my

Deep in my heart, I believed that one day Rowan and I would get back together. I didn’t want an unwanted baby to hinder that.

to always be

didn’t you get an emergency pill the morning after?” mom asks, making

complete mess, everything was new to me. To put it plainly, I was

so I didn’t really know that I should have.

assumed tha‘ n’t really enough to get

aused me to get one, but like

anyone to know.”

tell me that during all the years you dated Rowan, you never slept

virgin?” Travis asks

Rowan wasn’t. Before we started dating,

and had a vagina. When I’d

We planned to wait till I was ready. My biggest regret was

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not talk

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a

want the child and I wanted to get rid of it, but he wouldn’t let

wanted an abortion?” Mom asks, her voice ringing with horror

my head. “Calvin threatened to

I didn’t want you to know about my mistake, so I agreed to carry