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

heaven’s sake, why the hell did this kiss

fucking get it,

groan in frustration, wishing I could erase

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

holding.

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

beating heart.

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

munching on the cookies that I

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I was just a little bit lost in

his face. “Are you still thinking about what happened yesterday with

he didn’t need to know that I

different thing.

are you making for breakfast, mom?”

fry up”

pumps his fist up in the air. “I love fry–ups;

food at

Emma will see the error of her ways and mend

Noah asks. “I’m

be done. Why don’t you go wait in the living

I finish up?”

they say at the same time, before

cleaning tools from me and proceeds to clean up the mess I’d made.

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

that they

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

mine.

would have finished cooking and brought some over anyway, so

I get back

up, all things

relieved that now everyone knows about Gunner. He’s

he shouldn’t be hidden away like a dirty secret. After my grandfather died, I had

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

his mother had a family. Gunner deserves to know his uncle and

worth knowing, but

for Gunner

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

have any right to keep