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

hell did this

don’t fucking

frustration, wishing I could erase the feel of his

got you so frustrated?” Calvin’s voice startles me so much that I let go of the

holding.

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

beating heart.

“I thought you heard us, given Gunner and Noah didn’t really get inside

munching on the

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just a little bit lost in

you still

lie, but he didn’t need to know that

different thing.

you making for breakfast,

up” I

the air. “I love fry–ups; it’s like

at once.”

I’m hoping that one day Emma will see the error of her ways and mend her fences

done?” Noah

be done. Why don’t you go

I finish up?”

say at the same time, before rushing to the

and proceeds to clean up the mess I’d made. “Sorry

for breakfast when we should have given you more time to yourself. It’s

that they

that. It’s not that Calvin was a bad cook. He

mine.

and brought some over anyway,

as I get back to

are you holding up, all things considered?” I

feel relieved that now everyone knows about Gunner.

secret. After my grandfather died, I had

the two

his mother had a family. Gunner deserves to

my eyes, Travis and Kate weren’t people worth knowing, but they’d treated

safe for Gunner to be around

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them. They were no longer part of my

to keep him from