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

why the hell did this kiss affect me so much?

don’t fucking get

wishing I could erase the feel of his lips

so much

holding.

scared the living day lights out of

beating heart.

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

them munching on the cookies that I had baked

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was just a little

“Are you still thinking about

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

different thing.

making for breakfast,

up”

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

food at

is happy. I’m hoping that one day Emma will see the error of her ways

you almost done?” Noah asks. “I’m so

yet. Just a few more minutes, and I’ll be done. Why don’t you go wait in the living room

I finish up?”

same time, before rushing to the

from me and proceeds to clean up

when we should have given you more time

that they wanted

cook. He

mine.

I would have finished cooking and brought some

I get back to

up, all things considered?”

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

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

it being just the two of us, but

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

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

Gunner

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

to keep him