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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not to let it show. Tried to make you,

so worried

exploded, and I’d been left with nothing. When I

any of you, but I

as small as I did back

with Ava.

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

when

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

tough things

bitterness

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

I discovered she had been going

after that. Molly became my anchor. My

second.” I take

I met Calvin again. It turns out we

assignment partner.” 2

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

any remnants of the obsession he had for me in high

stayed out of my way and I stayed out of

This was hard. I wanted to stop, but now more than ever,

for some time. They weren’t perfect,

let me know that

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

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

so fucking hard.

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

and sleeping with Ava, angry at Ava for getting pregnant and

I loved and angry at

to turn to know that it is from Rowan.

around Noah because if everything had gone the

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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 would have been so hurt, I would have gotten my revenge, and maybe then it

Rowan

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

what was to

1. us.

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

Rowan and I

my mistake to always

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

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

s–S** so I didn’t

really enough to get me pregnant. Looking back, maybe if

to get one, but

anyone to know.”

me that during all the years you dated

virgin?” Travis asks in

dating, which was at seventeen, he’d

vagina.

till I was ready. My biggest regret was

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answer your question, yes I was still a virgin. Anyway,” 1 paused. “I told

child and I wanted to get rid of it, but he wouldn’t let

Mom asks, her voice ringing with horror

“Calvin threatened to tell

my