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

a long time ago, and I’m slowly starting to heal,”

the truth. How did Emma end up being Gunner’s

question. Not because I don’t want to tell her

want to remember the

about my love for her from high

definitely. Everyone knew it, just like everyone knew I

ended up with the people we wanted, but in the end,

nightmare. Both of us got hurt

Emma were meant to be. It’s like

getting in

to get her to notice me, but she

had to compete against was Rowan. Like

nothing S**y about me,” I began, but

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

dreams as either a hot professor or a

laugh at that

probably disgusted with me. I mean,

then. I wouldn’t have wanted

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

got to the point where I was actually proud

appreciative glances from girls.”

age. It felt

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and continued working further on

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

when I could have someone else”

I know she didn’t enjoy college life. Not

became a mother and wife.

student with no worries or responsibilities. At least I got to have that

appeared back in my

going great until my grandfather

my parents died in an accident. He was all that I had given; I

family member alive. I changed schools so that I could

take care of him

finger back

Emma and Rowan were”

“I saw them around campus, but unlike before, I kept my

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

was totally fine

rejection. I wasn’t

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

want me. There was nothing I could do about

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

weeks off school only to come back to the news that the campus‘ IT

that Rowan had

honestly unbelievable.”

never expected that. Everyone was sure of their love. Sure that they would

thought that Rowan would sleep with

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

her outside her dorm, she looked like a

she wouldn’t let me near her.

out to be her

with anyone in Emma’s life. When Molly was assigned as my partner, I

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

to stay out of her way. I didn’t want to be a nuisance like I had been back in high school ! realized you couldn’t force love and Emma definitely

been a sad realization, but

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

I squeeze it. “Well, it didn’t 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 make love to her, but it wasn’t. she actually

She had been a virgin, and even though I’d slept with countless girls, she had been by far the best. Probably because

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

was the first time I found out that the

I loved her 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

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

tightly against the