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

sake, why the hell did this kiss

don’t fucking get

I could erase the feel

so much

holding.

lights out of me,”

beating heart.

given Gunner and Noah didn’t really get

to find them munching on the

1/4

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okay, I was just a little bit lost

slips from his face. “Are you

but he didn’t need to know that I was

different thing.

making for breakfast, mom?”

fry up” I

the air. “I

food at once.”

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

almost done?” Noah asks. “I’m

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

I finish up?”

the same time, before rushing to the

to

for breakfast when we should have given you more time to

they

Calvin was a bad cook. He just didn’t

mine.

have finished cooking and brought some

get back

you holding up, all things

feel relieved that now everyone knows about Gunner.

be hidden away like a dirty secret. After my grandfather died, I

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

Gunner deserves to know his uncle

eyes, Travis and Kate weren’t people worth knowing,

safe for Gunner to be around

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They were no longer part of my life, so it didn’t matter what they did

right to keep him from her