Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

Chapter 0223

The thought of that brings a certain kind of panic inside me. I didn’t want to think of that. I didn’t want to let go of my dream of being with Rowan. I stay quiet as I fight her words in my head.

“Emma?” she calls.

I know her; she wants me to agree. She wants me to tell her that I’ll think about it, but I don’t want to.

I’m saved from answering her when a knock sounds on my door.

have to go, Molly. There is someone at the door” I tell her in a hurry as I walk towards said door.

“Don’t think I don’t know what you’re doing, Em. This…”

I hang up the phone before she can finish her sentence.

Opening the door, I’m surprised to find mom on the other side. She wasn’t smiling, but hope still bubbles

inside me.

for an invitation, she

says, and all the hope that I had a

fight my tears when I notice

to properly introduce him to me,” she begins. “You’re also going to acknowledge him as your son and part of the Sharp family. You’re going to establish a bond with him, get to know him,

Was she

serious, Mom. I don’t want to

learned I was pregnant, so how could I turn

eyes turns into a blazing inferno. She raises her hand, and I react too slowly. The smack on my face

her

man you cruelly used and discarded, or I swear to

was wrong of me to ignore her and treat her like she didn’t exist. I regret it every day and I won’t

Fix what

to say anything before she walks past me,

standing staring at the spot she stood a few

in my head. Either get to know Gunner