Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

Chapter 0237

I stare at the doctor as if I’m a damn idiot who can’t comprehend what he just said. In my defense, his words didn’t register wholly with me. He was asking me to choose between Ava and her baby. Does he know how difficult that is?

“Mr. Woods, time is of the essence. We need to know your decision,” he all but begs.

I open my mouth, but no words come out. I try again, and the same thing F***ing happens.

“Mr. Woods?” the nurse calls, concern in her voice.

“The baby,” Letty’s soft voice suddenly says, breaking the silence. “Save the baby, if it comes down to it.

The doctor and nurse nod their heads before rushing back to the ER. I turn to face Letty with mixed

feelings waging war inside me.

My look must have communicated something because she hardens her eyes in defiance before speaking.

“Don’t look at me like that, Rowan. This is what Ava would have wanted,” she says through gritted teeth.

Corrine comes to the defense of her friend.

“She’s right. Ava would have picked her baby over herself any day, any time. If we picked her over the

child, she would have hated us.

I deflate after she voices what I was thinking just a few minutes ago. I know she’s right, but that doesn’t take away the heaviness I feel in my heart.

I would never wish her baby harm. All I pray right now is that it doesn’t come down to that. I hope that both of them make it. Ava deserves to know happiness, and her baby deserves to live.

I resume my seat and wait. It killed me to wait, but what choice do I have? I’m not a doctor, so I can’t really help her. All I can do is continue praying.

I don’t remember the last time I prayed. Probably when I was still a kid in Sunday school. Right now, I’m willing to pray to anyone who’ll listen and answer my request. If it was possible to trade places with her, then I would have gladly done so, even if it meant that I wouldn’t have survived.

life, then I would do it. I would sacrifice everything I have right now just to

It’s my fault.

voice to

tried calling me, but I was unreachable. When I got her missed call, I told myself I’d call her after got

into his arms as

wasn’t your fault, Letty. You couldn’t

blame, then it should be me. I picked up her call. She wanted us to go shopping, but I was busy, so I asked her if we could postpone. If only

see the love for their friend shining through their eyes. They haven’t

of you could have predicted something like this happening, so don’t blame yourself. The

the bastard that hurt,” Kate tells them in a trembling

need to focus

prayers for them,”

say anything. I just focus on the emergency room, waiting for someone to come through the

intell

to F***ing tell me that she is going to be okay. That she and the baby were out of danger. That they will be

miracle. My heart and soul begged for the angel of death to stay away. Their souls weren’t his to claim. Not now. It wasn’t their time yet; how

we went to the mall and she didn’t see the glass wall in front of her?” Letty says

chuckles. “Yeah. She hit it right in the face before she

was so embarrassed, but she couldn’t stop laughing about

something about it that rubbed me

signaling to her that he was right behind her, but she didn’t get it, not until the man cleared his voice,” Corrine says with a fond smile.

mortified, She begged us to leave because she couldn’t face him after that.” Letty

to that place again.”

Everyone was probably lost in memory

memories. After all, they’d treated Ava like shit,

of them.

Noah and her newborn. So much

amazing their mom is”

Letty’s mouth,

a like

you just stop!” I growl as I feel anger bubble up inside me. She had no right