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.

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

It’s my fault.

turn towards the voice to find Letty silently

unreachable. When I got her missed call, I told myself I’d call her after got out of work. I should have just called her back

pulls her into his arms

your fault, Letty. You couldn’t have

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 as if she

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

this

hurt,” Kate tells

We need to

for

anything. I just focus on the emergency room,

intell

The uncertainty. I just need someone to F***ing tell me that she

lining. For a 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

see the glass wall in front of her?” Letty says with a

“Yeah. She hit it right in the face before

couldn’t stop laughing about it because it

of the others chuckled. There was just something about it that rubbed me wrong.

he was right behind her, but she didn’t get it, not until the man cleared

mortified, She begged us to leave because she couldn’t face him

to that place again.”

was probably lost in memory lane. For the others,

all, they’d treated Ava like shit, but Letty and Corrine

of them.

and her newborn. So much to tell them about

amazing their mom is”

leave Letty’s mouth,

a like

I feel anger bubble up inside me. She had no right to talk