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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Ava, I was broken I tried not to let it show. Tried to

because you were all so worried

world had exploded, and I’d been left with nothing. When I went back to

you, but I fell

the grass, 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, I rarely left my

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

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

tough things

memory. I had so much bitterness and resentment towards Ava back then. I

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

that I discovered she had been going

that. Molly became my

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

met Calvin again. It turns out we went to the

assignment partner.” 2

we weren’t friends. I tolerated him because

when he didn’t show any remnants of the obsession

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

hard. I wanted to stop, but now more than

some time. They weren’t

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

love with his son at first sight. Everything around me crumbled, and all

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

so fucking hard.

really angry. Angry at myself for turning

sleeping with Ava,

angry at the

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

had gone the way I wanted it to, then

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Rowan To hurt 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 that would have hurt him. That’s why I slept with Calvin that night, because I counted on Rowan’s friend telling him. He

also how I lost my virginity. I was saving it for Rowan and in the end I gave it to the guy who kept fighting for me

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 it was a terrible one–night stand and

I been wrong. I hadn’t planned for what was to come next. What destiny had planned

1. us.

exist, that is, until my period was late. A cheap test. and later, a doctor’s

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

to always be

you get an emergency pill the morning

from being a complete mess, everything was new to me. To put it

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

tha‘ n’t really enough to

aused me to get one, but like I said, I was so ashamed, I didn’t

anyone to know.”

want to tell me that during all the years you dated Rowan, you never

virgin?” Travis

started dating, which was

a vagina. When

I was ready. My biggest regret was holding out on

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we not talk about this? It was years

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was still a virgin. Anyway,” 1 paused.

the child and I wanted to get rid of

Mom asks, her voice ringing with

head. “Calvin threatened

want you to know about my