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

Emma, so how can I

I’m slowly starting to heal,” she pauses.

me. I want to know the truth. How did Emma end up

this question. Not because

don’t want to remember the painful

her from

definitely. Everyone knew it, just like everyone

messed up. We both somehow ended up with the people

of us got hurt

Rowan and Emma were meant to

getting in the

her to notice me, but she never did. It

person I had to compete against was Rowan. Like you said

I began, but Ava interrupted me by

like a

as either a hot professor or

at that

then. Emma was probably

I wouldn’t

summer before college, I

but I got to the point where I was actually proud of how I

appreciative glances from girls.”

my life at that age. It felt good to

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joined college and continued working further on myself I became unrecognizable I drowned

over me. I had my pick from a large pool. Soon, I started

could

her head in understanding. I know she didn’t enjoy college life. Not after

became a mother and wife. She didn’t have

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

appeared back

my grandfather had a stroke

after both my parents died in an

know any other family member alive. I changed schools so that I could be

care of him that way”

swings her finger

Emma and Rowan were”

around campus, but unlike before, I

and besides, I had a lot going

totally fine with me. I had

I wasn’t willing to let

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

was nothing I

most challenging time of my fucking life.

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

belie Especially when I learned that Rowan had cheated on Emma. It

honestly unbelievable.”

Everyone was sure of their

that Rowan

person. It

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

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

out to be her best friend and

involved with anyone in Emma’s life. When Molly was assigned

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she couldn’t even remove her eyes from mine, even if she

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

had been a sad realization, but a

only I’d realized that earlier, like you

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

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

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 Rowan for sleeping with

the girl

thing. That she was only using me. The betrayal I felt nearly destroyed

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, but I knew I loved

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