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.

sacrifice everything I have right now just to see her scowling or glaring at me. I would give up the world to reverse what happened to her if

It’s my fault.

the voice to find Letty silently

I was unreachable. When I got her missed call, I told myself I’d call her after got out of work. I should

her into his arms as she continues to

Letty. You couldn’t have predicted

her call. She wanted us to go shopping, but I was busy, so I asked her if we could postpone. If only I’d gone with her. Maybe I could have done something to prevent her from getting hurt.” She had her arms wrapped around herself

at them, I see the love for their friend shining through their eyes. They haven’t known each other for

something like this happening, so don’t blame

hurt,” Kate tells them in

the blame game right now won’t help. We need to focus on

best prayers for them,”

I just focus on the emergency room, waiting

intell

waiting. The worrying. The uncertainty. I just need someone 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

kind of 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 can it be when

when we went to the mall and she didn’t see the glass wall in front of

She hit it right in the face before she

stop laughing about it because it was

chuckled. There was just something about it that rubbed me wrong. I gritted

her talking about how cute he is. We tried signaling to her that he was right behind her,

us to leave because she couldn’t face him after

to that place again.”

was a moment of silence. Everyone was probably lost in memory lane.

any good memories. After all, they’d treated Ava like shit, but Letty and

of them.

have so many memories to share with Noah and her newborn.

amazing their mom is”

those words leave Letty’s mouth, I blow

a like

growl as I feel anger bubble up inside me. She had