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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I tried not to let it show. Tried to make you, dad,

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

world had exploded, and I’d been left with nothing.

any of you,

grass, feeling as small as I did back

with Ava.

didn’t sleep, and I didn’t attend classes. In fact, I rarely left my

pushing, and when I refused to

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

things

much bitterness and

would have been ecstatic. It was probably a

discovered she had been going through her own

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

Rowan every second.” I take a deep breath “It was

that I met Calvin again. It turns out we went to the same

assignment partner.” 2

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

didn’t show any remnants of the obsession he had for me in high

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

I wanted to stop, but now more than ever, I knew

I said, things were going well for some time. They weren’t perfect,

me know that Ava had given birth to a

Rowan fell in love with his son at first sight. Everything around me crumbled, and all the

to the surface.” I try to breathe through the pain

so fucking hard.

I was really angry. Angry at myself for turning down Rowan’s

drunk and sleeping with Ava, angry at

I loved and angry at the baby for

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

had gone the way I wanted

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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

I lost my virginity. I was saving it for Rowan and in the end I gave it

that it was a mistake and that he should forget about what happened between us. I snuck out of his

hadn’t planned for what was to come next.

1. us.

went back to ignoring each other like the other didn’t exist, that is, until my period was late. A cheap test. and later, a doctor’s appointment confirmed that I

one day Rowan and

mistake to always be in

an emergency pill the morning after?” mom asks, making me blush a

everything was new to me.

time I’ve ever h–had s–S** so I didn’t really know that I should have. It was

enough to get me pregnant. Looking

would have aused me to get one, but

anyone to know.”

during all the

virgin?” Travis

we started dating, which was at seventeen, he’d previously

walked and had a vagina. When I’d told him I wasn’t ready,

ready. My biggest regret was holding

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uncomfortably “Can we not

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your question, yes I was still a virgin. Anyway,” 1 paused. “I told

and I wanted to get rid

her voice ringing with horror and

nod my head. “Calvin threatened to

know about my