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

fucking

could erase the feel

me so much that I let go

holding.

the living day lights out of me,” I

beating heart.

us, given Gunner

munching on the cookies that I

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I was just a

slips from his face. “Are you still thinking about what

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

different thing.

for

fry up”

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

at

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

you almost done?” Noah asks.

and I’ll be done. Why don’t you go wait in

I finish up?”

they say at the same time, before rushing to the

takes the cleaning tools from me and proceeds to clean up the mess

when we should have given you

they wanted your

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

mine.

brought some over anyway, so it’s not

him as I get back to frying the

are you holding up, all things

“I feel relieved that now everyone knows about Gunner.

like a dirty secret. After my grandfather died, I

was born. I didn’t mind it being just the two of

a family. Gunner deserves to know his

my eyes, Travis and Kate weren’t people worth knowing,

was safe for Gunner to be

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

didn’t have any right to keep him from