Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

Chapter 0239

“Dad, where is mom? I asked Cal why he was picking me up instead of mom, but he said, You’ll explain everything,” he says, a mask of concern firmly on his face.

Damn this was hard. I had time to come up with a way of delivering the news, but words fail me.

“Is she having the baby? Is that why we are at the hospital?” he pushes.

I take a calming breath before opening my mouth to speak.

“Your mom was hurt really badly, Buddy. The doctors are with her right now and they’re doing everything

to make sure that she’ll be fine.”

My heart breaks at seeing the tears that fill his eyes. He shouldn’t be going through this. He shouldn’t be

here worrying about his beloved mother.

“What about the baby?” His voice is hoarse when she asks that.

I smile at him. “You have a baby sister, Noah. Just like you wanted.”

His eyes widen, and wonder fills his face, right before a smile takes over his features.

“Can I see her?”

doctors are done checking her out

until it starts slowly slipping. The tears that he had controlled, start. falling down his cheek. He doesn’t make a

to leave me, dad.” His voices catches at the end and I pull

into my arms.

to my chest while fighting my emotions and trying to

have to wonder.

to Ava was going to pay dearly. He or she messed with the wrong

they are going to

very sure that she’ll

for a while before he lets me go and climbs on my thigh. He then lays his head on

strong boy, and the fact that he’s behaving this way shows just

vulnerable he is.

+15 BONUS

continue waiting. I stand up, pace, and then sit down over and over again. Noah never leaves my side, even for a moment. Every minute that passed without a word, I slowly die inside. I was afraid that the delay meant that things weren’t going as was

hours after Ava had been taken in for surgery when her

Nora rushes in. Her eyes were bloodshot

and Theo disheveled. They’ve always been put together. Even when Ethan was

though. They lost more than twenty–five years with their

of losing her

door opens, and a doctor comes out. The look on his face tells me