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

why the hell did this kiss affect me

fucking

erase the feel

Calvin’s voice startles me so much that I let go of the eggs I

holding.

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

beating heart.

given Gunner and Noah didn’t really get inside

find them munching on the cookies

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was just a little bit lost

you still thinking about what happened yesterday with

my head. It was a lie, but he

different thing.

are you making for

fry up” I

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

at

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

you almost done?” Noah asks. “I’m so

Just a few more minutes, and I’ll be done.

I finish up?”

the same time, before rushing

and proceeds to clean up the mess I’d made.

we should have given you more time to yourself. It’s

that they wanted

laugh at that. It’s not that Calvin was a bad cook. He just didn’t make

mine.

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

I get

holding up, all things considered?”

that now everyone knows about

like a dirty secret. After my grandfather died, I had no one

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

had a family. Gunner deserves

people worth knowing, but they’d treated Noah well,

Gunner

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go of my resentment towards them. They were no longer

to keep