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

the hell did this kiss affect

fucking

erase the feel of his lips

me so much that

holding.

of me,” I say with my hand pressing hard on

beating heart.

he grins. “I thought you heard us, given Gunner and

boys to find them munching on the

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a

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

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

different thing.

you making for breakfast,

up”

his fist up in the air. “I

food at

that one day Emma will see the error of her ways and mend her fences with Gunner before it’s too

you almost done?” Noah asks.

and I’ll be done. Why don’t you

I finish up?”

time, before rushing to

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

when we should have given you more time to

that they wanted your

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

mine.

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

get back to frying

all things

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

a dirty secret. After my grandfather died, I had no

being just the two of us, but

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

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

Gunner to be

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

any right to keep him