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

sake, why the hell did

don’t fucking get

I could erase the feel of his lips on

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

holding.

living day lights out of me,”

beating heart.

us, given Gunner

them munching on the cookies that I had baked

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okay, I was just a little

you

just nod my head. It was a lie, but he didn’t need to know that I was

different thing.

for breakfast, mom?” Noah

up” I

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

at

smile at him. So happy that he is happy. I’m hoping that one day Emma will see

almost done?” Noah asks. “I’m so hungry.”

be done. Why don’t you go wait in the

I finish up?”

at the same time, before

to clean up the mess I’d

breakfast when we should have given you more time to yourself.

that they wanted your

that. It’s not that Calvin was a bad cook. He just didn’t make it like I did. Their

mine.

and brought some over anyway, so it’s not a big

him as I get back to

holding up, all things considered?”

that now

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

it being just the two of

his mother had a family. Gunner deserves

eyes, Travis and Kate weren’t people worth knowing, but they’d treated Noah well, so

safe for Gunner to

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them. They were no longer part of my life, so it didn’t matter what they did to me

right to keep him from her side