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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broken I tried not to let it

okay because you were all so worried

been left with nothing. When I went back to school,

you, but I

I did back then when

with Ava.

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

when I refused to get better,

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

out how tough things

in memory. I had so much bitterness and

ever found out how far I’d fallen, she would have

she had been going through her own kind of

Molly became my anchor. My grades were improving, and

Rowan every second.”

turns out we went to the same Uni and he was also

assignment partner.” 2

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

show any remnants of the obsession he had for me in high

stayed out of my way and I

to stop, but now more than ever, I knew

some time. They weren’t perfect, but they

is, until the night m alled me to let me

son at first sight. Everything around

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

so fucking hard.

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

getting drunk and sleeping with Ava, angry at Ava for

angry at the baby for being

hear a sharp intake of air. I don’t need to turn to know that it is from

if everything had gone the way I wanted it to,

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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

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

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 it was a terrible one–night stand and that would be the end of

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

1. us.

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

received. Deep in my heart, I believed that one day Rowan and I would get back

mistake to always be in

an emergency pill the morning after?” mom asks, making

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

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

n’t really enough to get me pregnant. Looking

me to get one, but like I said,

anyone to know.”

during all the years you

still a virgin?” Travis asks

Rowan wasn’t. Before we started dating, which

that walked and had a vagina. When I’d told him I

planned to wait till I was ready. My biggest regret was

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

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

an abortion?” Mom asks, her voice ringing with horror

but nod my head. “Calvin threatened to tell you

to know about my