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

asks about Emma, so how can I comfort

and I’m slowly starting to heal,” she pauses. “In any

to know the truth. How did Emma end

because I don’t want

to remember the

my love for her from high

it, just like everyone knew

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

be a nightmare. Both of us got hurt really, fucking badly.

Rowan and Emma were meant

for getting in the

I tried everything to get her to notice me, but

to compete against was Rowan. Like you said when we met

about me,” I began, but Ava interrupted

in glasses? You’re like

a hot professor

laugh at

back then. Emma was probably disgusted

looked terrible back then. I

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

but I got to the point where I was actually proud of how I looked. I even started

appreciative glances from girls.”

at that age. It

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on myself I became unrecognizable I

great. I had girls all over me. I had my pick from a large pool. Soon, I started to forget about Emma. There was no use crying over a girl that

me when I could have someone else”

I know she didn’t enjoy

mother and wife. She

student with no worries or responsibilities. At least

appeared back in my

was going great until my grandfather had a stroke

me after both my parents died in an accident. He

member alive. I changed schools

take care

widens as she swings her finger back and

Emma and Rowan were”

saw them around campus, but unlike before,

and besides, I had a lot going on. I didn’t have any

for hookups, and that was totally fine with me. I had locked my heart

wasn’t willing to let anyone

her, and it killed me seeing her and Rowan almost every

want me. There was nothing I could do about

most challenging time of my fucking

to come back to the news that the campus‘ IT couple had broken up.

I learned that

honestly unbelievable.”

their

No one ever thought that Rowan would sleep

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

few times you saw her outside her dorm,

I knew she wouldn’t let me near her. It was a

to be her best friend and

with anyone in Emma’s life. When Molly

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Ava She looks captivated Like she couldn’t even remove

like I had been back in high school

a sad realization, but

“If only I’d realized that earlier, like you

was unexpected, but it was the best kiss I’ve ever received. I thought it was a dream when she asked me to make love to

day like it was yesterday. She had been a virgin, and even though I’d slept with countless girls,

build something with me. Only I had been wrong. We woke 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 back at

first time I found out that the girl Rowan

with my body, only to find out that she didn’t feel a thing. That she was only using me. The betrayal I felt nearly destroyed me. We kept our distance ag hat is until she told me she

be a father. For heaven’s sake, I’d never even been near any babies. It was overwhelming, but I knew I

an abortion, I couldn’t let that happen, so I threatened her.” I take a deep breath, feeling my throat close tightly against the bubbling emotions.