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

all so worried about me. I

left with nothing. When

of you, but I fell

feeling as small as I did back then when I learned that Rowan had

with Ava.

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

when I

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

things were for

lost in memory. I had so much bitterness

how far I’d fallen, she would have been ecstatic. It was

been

became my anchor. My grades were improving, and

every second.” I take a deep breath “It

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

assignment partner.” 2

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

the obsession

We co–existed. He stayed out

now more

said, things were going well for some

alled me to let me know that Ava had given birth to a baby boy

son at first sight. Everything around me crumbled, and all the

surface.” I try to breathe through the

so fucking hard.

was really angry. Angry at myself for turning

Ava, angry at Ava for getting pregnant

angry

intake of air. I don’t need to turn to

the way I wanted it to, then he

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him like he hurt me I knew he always disliked Calvin for the way he crushed on me, so that night I approached Calvin and seduced him I knew word would probably get back to Rowan, and

Rowan and in the end I gave it to the guy who kept fighting for me to love

like just to get back at the man I loved. I told Calvin that it was a mistake and that he should forget about what happened between us. I snuck out of his room, and I thought that

for what

1. us.

ignoring each other like the other didn’t exist, that is, until my period was late. A cheap

I’ve ever received. Deep in my heart, I believed that one day Rowan and I would get

mistake to always be in my

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

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

h–had s–S** so I didn’t really know that I should

I assumed tha‘ n’t really enough to get

would have aused me to get one, but like

anyone to know.”

the years you dated Rowan,

a virgin?” Travis asks

Before we started dating, which

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

till I was ready. My biggest regret was

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yes I was still a virgin. Anyway,” 1 paused.

the child and I wanted to get

Mom asks, her

head. “Calvin threatened to tell you

want you to know about my mistake, so