Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

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Calvin

I wait. I wait patiently for her to come back. I didn’t know where she went, but I can take a pretty

damn good guess. She was mad; I understand that more than anything. If anyone is pissed off and

hurt at what Emma has been doing, then it’s me. She has caused me and Gunner more hurt than

I’m ever willing to admit.

I hear the door unlock, but I don’t move. I’m not even sure what the hell I am doing here. The boys

are at my house with the nanny. For some reason, I feel like I should be here.

Ava stops dead in her tracks. “Cal, I didn’t expect you to still be here.”

Her eyes were red and puffy. She has been crying; that much is clear. Words honestly fail me. I

have no fucking idea what the hell to tell her.

“I thought I would wait for you,” I say as she takes a seat. “Where have you been?”

I knew where she went after she realized that Emma was Gunner’s mom. That was hours ago. I

don’t know where she went after. I’m sure confronting Emma didn’t take almost three hours.

“I needed to think, so I just drove around,” she whispers. “Gosh! This is so hard for me. Not only

because I love Gunner like my own and it kills me to watch him hurt, but

also because I see

myself in him.”

I don’t know much about Ava. I was about two years ahead of her in school. We weren’t friends

back then, and I didn’t pa ention to any girl that wasn’t Emma.

Even now, I don’t know much about her. I kept myself closed off. I felt it would be unfair to dig

deep into her life when I barely told her anything deep about mine. All I know is that Rowan hurt

her pretty badly. Just like Emma destroyed.

“Why?” I ask curiously.

Because I suffered the same fate as him when I was younger. I was unwanted. For me, it was

nuch harder because I was unwanted by both my family and Rowan’s family. I didn’t understand

why they didn’t like me. I tried so hard to get them to love me, but they never did. In fact, it got

Jorse as I got older.”

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I didn’t know that about het. Unlike other boys who tried getting close to her so they could get

close to Emma, I didn’t I thought their tactic was downright cruel Using one sister to get another

was utterly disgusting

“I’m soony, Ava.”

There was nothing else I could say to comfort her. I don’t even know how to comfort Gunner when

was

Emma, so how

a long time ago, and I’m slowly

truth. How did Emma end up being Gunner’s

dreading this question. Not because I don’t want to tell

to remember the

for her

just like everyone knew I wanted Rowan.”

up. We both somehow ended up with the people we wanted, but in

nightmare. Both of us got hurt really,

Emma were meant

getting in

to get her to notice me, but she never did. It wasn’t even possible

against was Rowan. Like you said when we met

I began, but Ava interrupted me by

yourself in glasses? You’re like a woman’s nerdy

a

laugh at that despite

probably disgusted with me. I mean, come on, even

to admit I looked terrible back then. I wouldn’t have

high school, and in the summer before college, I decided to work on myself.

got to the point where I was actually proud of how

appreciative glances from girls.”

had been the highlight of my life at that age.

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further on

girls all over me. I had my pick from a large pool. Soon, I started to forget about Emma.

could have someone

she didn’t enjoy college life. Not

became a mother and wife. She didn’t have time to be a

worries or responsibilities. At least I got to have that experience

back in

going great until my grandfather had a stroke

parents died in an

member alive. I changed schools so that I

take care

finger back and forth.

Emma and Rowan were”

around campus, but unlike before,

want trouble, and besides, I had a lot going on. I didn’t have any time for

was totally fine with

wasn’t willing

still loved her, and it killed me seeing her and Rowan

There was nothing

grandfather passed away, and it was the most challenging time of my fucking life.

the news that the campus‘ IT couple had broken

couldn’t belie Especially when I learned that Rowan had cheated

honestly unbelievable.”

of their love. Sure that they would stay together and

thought that Rowan would sleep

came back as a totally different person. It was like she was

her outside her dorm, she looked like a

her, but I knew she wouldn’t let me near her. It was a coincidence that

be her best friend and

Emma’s life. When Molly was assigned as

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she couldn’t even

way. I didn’t want to be a nuisance like I had been back in high school !

had been a sad

Ava says sadly. “If only I’d realized that earlier, like you did. It would’ve probably saved me from a lot

day, out of the blues, Emma showed up at my dorm room and kissed me. It was unexpected, but it was the best kiss

day like it was yesterday. She had been a virgin, and even though I’d slept with countless girls, she had been by far the best. Probably because I had feelings for

up the next morning, and she was disgusted with herself. I tried talking to her. I tried telling her that I still loved her, but she said. she’d been using me to get

first time I found out that the girl Rowan slept with and knocked up was

my body, only to find out that she didn’t feel a thing. That she was only using

For heaven’s sake, I’d never

against the bubbling emotions. “I