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

don’t fucking get

could erase the feel of his lips on

me so much that

holding.

the living day lights out of me,”

beating heart.

us, given Gunner and Noah didn’t

munching on the cookies

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a little

his face. “Are you still thinking about what happened

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

different thing.

for

fry up” I

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

food at

hoping that one day Emma will see the error of her ways and mend her fences with Gunner before

Noah asks. “I’m

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

I finish up?”

they say at the same time, before rushing

proceeds to clean up the mess I’d

breakfast when we should have given you more time to yourself. It’s just that

that they

that Calvin was a bad cook.

mine.

and brought some over anyway, so it’s not a big deal,”

get back to

are you holding up, all things considered?” I

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

like a dirty secret. After my grandfather died, I

was born. I didn’t mind it being just the two of us, but I

Gunner deserves to know

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

was safe for Gunner

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

any right to keep him