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

hell did this kiss affect

fucking get

I could erase the feel of his lips on

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

holding.

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

beating heart.

us, given Gunner and Noah

to said boys to find them munching on the cookies

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a little

from his face. “Are you still thinking about what

just nod my head. It was a lie, but he didn’t need to know that I was thinking about

different thing.

for

fry up” I

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

at once.”

So happy that he is happy. I’m hoping that one day Emma will see

done?” Noah asks. “I’m so hungry.”

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

I finish up?”

they say at the same time, before

proceeds to clean up the

we should have given you more time

that they wanted

was a bad cook. He just didn’t make it like I did. Their word,

mine.

I would have finished cooking and brought some over anyway, so it’s not a big deal,”

as I get back to frying the

all things considered?”

“I feel relieved that now everyone knows about

like a dirty secret. After my grandfather died, I

two of us, but I knew it was

Gunner deserves to know his

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

for Gunner to

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I should really let go of my resentment towards them. They were no longer part of my

to keep him from