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

fucking

groan in frustration, wishing I could erase the feel

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

holding.

scared the living day lights out of me,” I say with my hand pressing hard on

beating heart.

you heard us, given Gunner and Noah didn’t

them munching on the cookies that I had baked

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okay, I was just a little bit lost

“Are you still thinking about what happened

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

different thing.

you making for breakfast,

up” I

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

at

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

almost done?” Noah asks.

be done.

I finish up?”

at the same time,

from me and proceeds to clean up the mess

given you more time to yourself. It’s just

that they

It’s not that Calvin was a bad cook. He just didn’t make it like I did.

mine.

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

as I get back to frying

all

that now everyone knows about Gunner. He’s

a dirty secret. After my

it being just the two of us, but I knew it was unfair to

his mother had a family. Gunner deserves to know his

people worth knowing, but they’d treated

Gunner to

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longer part of my life, so

Emma didn’t have any right to keep