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.

wait for an invitation,

and all the

fight my tears when I notice the

you 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

Was she really going to force me to get to

serious, Mom. I don’t want to know him!”

I was pregnant, so how could I turn around and try and build

inferno. She raises her hand, and I react too slowly. The smack on my face leaves me confused for a while. Still

my cheek and look at her in disbelief. She has never slapped me

you one chance to fix things with your son and the man you cruelly used and discarded, or I swear to you, Emma, I will disown you. Mark my words. You continue down the path you’re walking, and I’ll consider you dead to me.” She pauses,

wrong of me to ignore her and treat

what you’ve

anything before she walks past me, opens the

staring at the spot she stood a few

my head. Either