Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

Chapter 0123

All I had to do was to take a step forward. Just one step and everything will end. There won’t be any more pain, or sadness or heartache. I would be free of the constant darkness that was drowning me

I hear a car in the distance, but I don’t turn. I still don’t turn when a door slams.

“What the hell do you think you’re doing, Ava?” Rowan’s voice growls from behind me.

I don’t turn even as the wind picks up. I feel its force. As if it was also urging me to make that one step.

“Ava, please. Step away from the cliff. Come to me” I feel his presence as he slowly approaches me, but I

don’t step back.

I was so tired. Tired of crying. Tired of hurting. Tired of the constant fucking pain. I was so fucking tired of

fighting. The pain was constant. Always there. Slowly killing me. Reducing me to someone I didn’t want to

see.

just want it all to stop. I want

was born. I just don’t have it in me to

yourself isn’t the answer” he says, just as he grabs me

so distracted that I didn’t notice how close he had

Let me end this once and for all” I

him to let me

out of it Ava!” he shouts back at me. Refusing to let go. “Think

going to leave him with the

child, are you so fucking selfish and cruel that you would kill

own flesh and blood” he shakes me, his face hardening with

mention of Noah’s name. I stop fighting

“Rowan…”

you think right now or if you’ll

You’re going to work on your issues and you’re going

children and you

or so help me God, Ava, I will…” he doesn’t finish his sentence but I

his eyes. His hands tightening

of letting me go,