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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tried not to let

I was okay because you were all so worried

left with nothing. When I went

any of you, but I fell

feeling as small as I did back then when I learned

with Ava.

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

noticed this. She started pushing, and when I

you to

how tough things were

was lost in memory. I had so much bitterness and resentment towards Ava

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

had been going through her own

Molly became my anchor.

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

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

assignment partner.” 2

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

the obsession he

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

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

I said, things were going well for some time.

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

at first sight. Everything

to the surface.” I try to breathe through the pain of the memories,

so fucking hard.

in pain, and I was really angry. Angry at myself

sleeping with Ava, angry at Ava for getting pregnant and

angry at the

turn to know that it is from Rowan. I

around Noah because if everything had gone the way I

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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 that would have hurt him. That’s why I slept with Calvin that night, because I counted

but it’s also how I lost my virginity. I was saving it for Rowan and in the end I gave it to

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

for what was to come next.

1. us.

my period was late. A cheap test. and later, a doctor’s appointment confirmed that

been the worst news I’ve ever received. Deep in my heart, I believed that one day Rowan

my mistake to always

morning after?” mom asks, making

to me. To put it plainly,

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

really enough to get me

get one, but like I said,

anyone to know.”

during all the years you dated Rowan, you never slept

still a virgin?” Travis asks in

Rowan wasn’t. Before we started dating, which was at seventeen,

and had a vagina. When I’d told him I

We planned to wait till I was ready.

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we not talk about

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

didn’t want the child and I wanted to get rid of it,

an abortion?” Mom asks, her

couldn’t do anything, but nod my head. “Calvin threatened to tell you and dad if

my mistake, so I agreed to carry the baby