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

erase the feel of his

got you so frustrated?” Calvin’s voice startles me so much that I let go

holding.

the living day lights out of me,” I say

beating heart.

heard us, given Gunner and Noah didn’t really

said boys to find them munching on the cookies that I had baked

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just a little bit lost in

face. “Are you still thinking about what happened yesterday

lie, but he didn’t need

different thing.

for

fry up” I

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

at

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

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

a few more minutes, and I’ll be done. Why don’t you go wait in

I finish up?”

same time, before rushing to the other

cleaning tools from me and proceeds to clean up the

we should have given you more

they

was a bad cook. He just didn’t

mine.

would have finished cooking and brought some over anyway,

I get back to frying the

all things

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

shouldn’t be hidden away like a dirty secret.

just the two of us, but I knew it was

his mother had a family. Gunner deserves to

people worth

for Gunner to

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were no longer part of my life,

right. Emma didn’t have any right to keep him