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

fucking get

groan in frustration, wishing I could erase the feel of

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

holding.

Cal, you scared the living day lights out of me,” I say with my hand

beating heart.

he grins. “I thought you heard us, given Gunner and Noah didn’t

boys to find them munching on the cookies that I had

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okay, I was just a little bit lost in

you still thinking about what happened yesterday

he didn’t need to know that I was

different thing.

making for breakfast, mom?” Noah

fry up” I

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

food at once.”

smile at him. So happy that he is happy. I’m hoping 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.

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

I finish up?”

say at the same time, before

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

given you more time to yourself. It’s just

that they

at that. It’s not that Calvin was a bad cook. He just didn’t

mine.

some over anyway, so it’s not a big

him as I get back to frying

are you holding up, all things considered?” I

feel relieved that now everyone knows about Gunner.

dirty secret. After my grandfather died, I had no

two

a family. Gunner deserves to know his

weren’t people worth knowing, but they’d treated Noah well,

safe for Gunner

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really let go of my resentment towards them. They were no longer part of my life, so it

keep him from her side of the family”