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

about Emma, so how

was a long time ago, and I’m slowly starting to heal,” she pauses.

want to know the truth. How did Emma end up being

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

want to

about my love for her from high school,” I start and she

definitely. Everyone knew it, just like

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

to be a nightmare. Both of us got hurt

and Emma were meant to be. It’s like

getting in the way

to notice me, but she never

had to compete against was Rowan. Like you said when

S**y about me,” I

you seen yourself in glasses? You’re like a woman’s nerdy fantasy. You

a hot professor or a

at

probably disgusted

back then. I wouldn’t have wanted to date

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

where I was actually proud of how I looked.

appreciative glances from girls.”

of my life at that age. It felt good to

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joined college and continued working further on

pick from

me when I could have

I know she didn’t enjoy

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

no worries or responsibilities. At least I

appeared back

great until my grandfather had a stroke

died in an

schools so that I

easier to take care of him that way”

her finger back and forth. “You transferred

Emma and Rowan were”

them around campus, but unlike before, I kept

lot going on. I

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

constant rejection. I wasn’t willing to

her, and it killed me seeing her and Rowan almost every day, but I accepted

want me. There was nothing

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

back to the news that the campus‘ IT couple had

learned that Rowan

honestly unbelievable.”

was sure of their

that Rowan would

came back as a totally different person. It

few times you saw her outside her dorm, she looked like a fucking

knew she wouldn’t let me near her. It

out to be her best friend

in Emma’s life. When Molly was assigned

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to Ava She looks captivated Like she couldn’t even remove her eyes from mine, even

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

been a sad realization, but a much–needed

says sadly. “If only I’d realized that earlier, like you did. It would’ve probably

work out for me… One day, out of the blues, Emma showed up at my dorm room and kissed me. It was unexpected, but it was the best kiss I’ve ever received. I thought it was a dream when she asked me to

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

to sleep thinking that finally it happened. That, finally she had noticed and wanted to 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

out that the girl Rowan

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

scared, to say the least. I didn’t know how to be a father. For heaven’s sake, I’d never even been near any babies. It was overwhelming,

her.” I take a deep breath, feeling my throat close tightly against the bubbling emotions. “I took her to my