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 can

I’m slowly starting to heal,”

know the truth. How did Emma

Not because I don’t want to

to remember the painful

love for her from

definitely. Everyone knew it, just like everyone knew I wanted

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

Both of us got

Emma were

in the

tried everything to get her to notice me, but

Rowan. Like you

was nothing S**y about me,” I

You’re like a

as either a hot professor or a

laugh at that

now, but not back then. Emma was probably disgusted with me. I mean, come on,

admit I looked terrible back then. I wouldn’t

high school, and in the summer before college, I decided

of effort, but I got to the point where I was actually

appreciative glances from girls.”

at that age. It felt good to

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college and continued working further on

girls, parties, and booze. Life was great. I had girls all over me. I had my pick from a large pool. Soon, I

when I could have someone

nods her head in understanding. I know she

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

no worries or responsibilities. At least

appeared back in my

great until my grandfather had a stroke and

both my parents died in an accident. He was all that

schools so

care of him that way”

widens as she swings her finger back and forth.

Emma and Rowan were”

simply answer. “I saw them around campus,

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

totally fine

I wasn’t willing to

killed me seeing her

want me. There was nothing I

and it was the most

to come back to the news that the campus‘ IT couple

couldn’t belie Especially when I learned that Rowan

honestly unbelievable.”

that. Everyone was sure of their love. Sure that they would stay together and

ever thought that Rowan would sleep with

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

outside her dorm, she looked like a fucking zombie. I

knew she wouldn’t let me near her. It

be her best

Emma’s life. When Molly was

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captivated Like she couldn’t even remove

way. I didn’t want to be a nuisance like I had been

had been a sad

like you did. It would’ve probably saved me from a

and kissed me. It was unexpected, but it was the best kiss I’ve ever received. I thought it was

She had been a virgin, and even though I’d slept with countless girls, she had been by

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

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

be a father. For heaven’s sake, I’d never even been

that happen, so I threatened her.” I take a deep breath, feeling my throat close tightly against the bubbling emotions. “I took her to my grandfather’s house. I’d hoped things would get better. That she would learn