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

you were all so worried about me. I

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

tell any of you, but I

down on the grass, feeling as small as I did

with Ava.

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

She started pushing, and when I refused

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

how tough things were for me.”

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

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

later that I discovered she had been going through her own kind

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

cry or think about Rowan every second.” I

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

assignment partner.” 2

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

the obsession he had for me in high

being weary of him. We co–existed. He stayed out of

stop, but now more

well for some time. They weren’t

let me know that

at first sight. Everything around me crumbled, and all the

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

so fucking hard.

was really angry. Angry at myself for turning

for getting drunk and sleeping with Ava, angry

angry at

need to turn to

around Noah because if everything had gone the way I wanted it to,

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and seduced him I knew word would probably get back to Rowan, and

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

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

been wrong. I hadn’t planned for what

1. us.

the other didn’t exist, that is, until my period was late. A cheap test. and later, a

my heart, I believed that one day Rowan and I would get back together. I didn’t want an unwanted

of my mistake to always

emergency pill the morning after?” mom asks,

being a complete mess, everything was new to

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

really enough to get me pregnant. Looking

me to get one, but

anyone to know.”

during all the years you dated Rowan, you never slept together?

still a virgin?” Travis

Rowan wasn’t. Before we started dating,

walked and had a vagina. When I’d told him I wasn’t ready,

to wait till I was ready. My biggest regret was

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not talk about this? It was

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a virgin. Anyway,” 1 paused.

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

abortion?” Mom asks, her voice

anything, but nod my head. “Calvin threatened to

know about my mistake, so I agreed