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 this kiss affect me

fucking get

in frustration, wishing I could erase the feel of

startles me so much that I let go of the

holding.

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

beating heart.

“I thought you heard us, given Gunner and Noah

boys to find them munching on the cookies

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okay, I was just a

from his face. “Are you still thinking

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

different thing.

for breakfast,

fry up”

in the air.

at once.”

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

Noah asks. “I’m so hungry.”

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

I finish up?”

at the same time, before rushing

from me and proceeds to clean up

have given you more time to

that they

It’s not that Calvin was a bad cook.

mine.

finished cooking and brought some

get back to

you holding up, all things considered?”

now everyone knows about

a dirty secret. After my grandfather died, I

I didn’t mind it being just the two of us, but I knew it

mother had a family. Gunner deserves to know

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

safe for Gunner to be

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

right. Emma didn’t have any right to keep