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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+15 BONUS

Rowan married Ava, I was broken I tried not to let it show. Tried to make you,

I was okay because you were all so

had exploded, and I’d been left with

tell any of you, but I fell into

small as I did back then when

with Ava.

sleep, and I

when I refused to get

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

out how tough things were

lost in memory. I had so much bitterness and

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

that I discovered she had been

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

second.” I take a deep breath “It

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

assignment partner.” 2

all, we weren’t

any remnants of the obsession he had for me

of him. We co–existed. He stayed out of my

wanted to stop, but now more than ever,

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

let me know that Ava had given

love with his son at first

hiding came to the surface.” I try to breathe through

so fucking hard.

really angry. Angry at myself for

getting drunk and sleeping with Ava,

and angry at the baby for being

I don’t need to turn to know that it is from Rowan. I still struggle

gone the way I wanted it to, then

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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 would have

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

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

what was to come

1. us.

other didn’t exist, that is, until my

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

to always be

the morning after?” mom asks, making me blush

new to me. To put it plainly, I was naive.

so I didn’t really know that I

really enough to

but like

anyone to know.”

want to tell me that during all the

virgin?”

started dating,

with anything that walked and had a vagina. When

ready. My biggest regret

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a groan uncomfortably “Can we not talk about this? It was years

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a virgin.

to

asks, her voice ringing with

do anything, but nod my head. “Calvin threatened to tell you

my plans. I didn’t want you to know about my mistake, so I