Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

Chapter 106 A note

The bright light coming through my window makes me open my eyes. Instead of getting up

immediately, I just stay in bed for a while as I rub my belly and feel my baby move inside me.

I look at the calendar on my bedside table and realize that today I just hit the sixth–month

milestone. It’s scary to have a baby. The whole journey is filled with uncertainty. I always make

sure to thank God each time I pass a milestone with my baby, knowing not all babies get to be

born.

After saying a small thank–you prayer, I get up and move downstairs. I could always shower later,

but right now I am hungry. With everything that happened yesterday, I forgot to eat.

Thinking about yesterday brings me to what happened with Rowan. I still can’t believe that I let

him kiss me or that I actually enjoyed it.

It bugs me so much that I wanted more. I wanted him to deepen the kiss. I wanted him to take it

further. I can blame it on the hormones, but we all know that I’d be lying to myself.

Rowan hurt me so much. The fact that I wanted him yesterday makes me hate myself just a little

bit. I promised myself to move on, yet there I was making out with him in my living room.

I want to believe that Rowan has changed, but I just can’t. Even if, by some miracle, he has, don’t

you think it’s a little too late for us? Too much has already happened for us to make something out

of the mess he created.

Taking out the ingredients for breakfast, I get to work. No matter what I try, I still can’t stop

thinking about the

For heaven’s sake, why the hell did this kiss affect me so much?

fucking get it,

I could erase the feel of his lips on

so frustrated?” Calvin’s voice startles me so much

holding.

living day lights out of me,” I say with my hand pressing hard

beating heart.

he grins. “I thought you heard us, given

munching on the

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just a little bit lost

from his face. “Are you still thinking

lie, but he didn’t need to know that I was thinking

different thing.

you making for breakfast, mom?”

up” I

in the air. “I love fry–ups; it’s like having all

at once.”

he is happy. I’m hoping that one day Emma will see the error of

you almost done?” Noah asks. “I’m

minutes, and I’ll be done. Why

I finish up?”

time, before rushing to the

cleaning tools from me and proceeds to clean up the mess

should have given you more time to yourself. It’s just

that they wanted

Calvin was a bad cook. He just didn’t make it

mine.

would have finished cooking and brought some over anyway, so

him as I get back to frying the

all things considered?”

pauses. “I feel relieved that now everyone knows about Gunner. He’s an amazing

shouldn’t be hidden away like a dirty secret. After my grandfather died, I had no

was born. I didn’t mind it being just the two of us, but I knew it

a family. Gunner deserves to know his

eyes, Travis and Kate weren’t people worth

was safe for Gunner to be around

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my resentment towards them. They were no longer part of my life, so it didn’t matter what they

have any right to keep him from her side of the family”