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 to

so worried about me.

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

of you,

the grass, feeling as small as I

with Ava.

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

Molly noticed this. She started pushing, and when I refused to get better,

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

how tough things were for me.”

I had so much bitterness and resentment

would have been ecstatic. It was

had been going through her own kind

well after that. Molly became my

every second.” I take a deep

turns out we went to the

assignment partner.” 2

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

remnants of the obsession he had for me

out of my way

wanted to stop, but now more than ever, I knew they wouldn’t

for some

let me know

his son at first sight. Everything around me crumbled,

surface.” I try to breathe through the

so fucking hard.

pain, and I was really angry. Angry at myself for turning down Rowan’s proposal,

with Ava, angry

I loved and angry at the

don’t need to turn to know that it is

the way I wanted it to,

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seduced him I knew word would probably get back to Rowan, and that would

it’s also how I lost my virginity. I was saving it for Rowan and

it the next morning. It had been foolish of me to sleep with a guy I didn’t even 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 was that. That

planned for what was to come next. What destiny

1. us.

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

the worst news I’ve ever received. Deep in my heart, I believed that one day Rowan and I would get back together.

my mistake to always be in my

you get an emergency pill the morning after?” mom asks,

new to me.

so I didn’t really know that I should

really enough to get me pregnant. Looking back, maybe

would have aused me to get one, but like I said, I

anyone to know.”

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

a virgin?” Travis asks

we started dating,

had a vagina. When I’d told

was ready. My biggest regret was

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we not talk about this? It was

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I was still a

to get rid of it,

an abortion?” Mom asks, her voice ringing with

nod my head. “Calvin threatened to tell you and dad if

know about my