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

so how can I comfort

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

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

Not because I don’t want to

I don’t want to remember

for her from high school,”

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

messed up. We both somehow ended up

out to be a nightmare. Both of us

It seems like Rowan and Emma

getting in

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

I had to compete against was Rowan. Like you said when we met again, I

There was nothing S**y about me,” I

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

a hot professor or a

laugh at that despite

back then. Emma was probably disgusted with me. I mean,

I

before college, I decided to work on myself. It took

I got to the point where I

appreciative glances from girls.”

life at that age. It felt good to be attractive. It felt fucking

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and continued working further on

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

could have

know she didn’t

and wife. She didn’t have time to be

student with no worries or responsibilities. At least I got

appeared back

going great until my grandfather had

raised me after both my parents died in an accident. He was all that I had given;

family member alive. I changed schools so that I could be closer

easier to take care of

swings her finger back

Emma and Rowan were”

saw them around campus,

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

that was totally fine with me. I

wasn’t willing to let anyone

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

want me. There was nothing

the most challenging time

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

when I learned that Rowan had cheated on Emma.

honestly unbelievable.”

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

ever thought that Rowan would

as a totally different person. It was

dorm,

let me near

her

didn’t want to be involved with anyone in Emma’s life. When Molly

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

nuisance like I had been back in high school ! realized you couldn’t force love and Emma definitely didn’t love

a sad realization, but a much–needed

you did.

at my dorm room and kissed me. It was unexpected, but it was the best kiss

though I’d slept with countless girls, she had

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

out that the girl Rowan

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

to be a father. For heaven’s sake, I’d

breath, feeling my throat close tightly against the bubbling emotions. “I took her to my grandfather’s house. I’d