Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

Chapter 0247

Ethan.

muh

When I got the news from one of the inmates that Ava had been shot, I felt like my heart had been split wide open by a sledgehammer. Everything in me died when he told me that there was no further news, but the grapevine believed that she was dead because no one could survive that shooting. That, and the

fact that her family kept quiet about it and there was no official report that was released,

I love Ava, and I love my baby even more. Knowing that they both hadn’t made it almost drove me to

insanity.

I waited the whole time with my heart in my throat. I waited for my parents to reach out and give me the bad news. When night arrived without a word from them, I was convinced that the rumors must be true. somehow. Otherwise, why would they take so long to make contact?

I barely slept an inch the whole night. Worry and anxiety were constant companions, driving me to the edge of insanity and filling my head with painful thoughts.

At one point, I cried to God. Praying that he could somehow do a F***ing miracle. I didn’t believe in

any deity, but at that point, I was willing to believe in anyone who would tell me that they were both alive and okay.

My cellmate, the guards, and other inmates gave me pitying looks. I felt horrible, I looked horrible, and I was pretty sure that I was F***ing dying inside.

When moming came, I could barely keep my breakfast down. The images of one adult–size casket and another tiny one kept wreaking havoc inside my head. It’s all I could think about. It’s all I saw.

My heart skipped a beat when I was called into the warden’s office. I didn’t say anything when I saw my parent’s lawyer.

When he told me that I had been pardoned for a few hours, a ray of hope started rising inside me. On our way to the hospital, that small ray bloomed into something bigger when Christopher, the family lawyer, told me that Ava and the baby were alive but in the ICU.

I thanked whatever power that had done it. They were alive, and that’s what mattered the most.

Ethan, are you okay?” Mom’s voice brings me back to the present.

I stare at her, wondering how the F*** I got so lucky. Most women in her position would have kicked me out of their lives, but she didn’t. Neither did my father.

My eyes search for him. They finally land on him. He was a few feet away from me, and he had his hand clamped on Rowan’s shoulder.

with hate. I didn’t mind at all. The feeling was F***ing mutual, given how he

turns around with

I tell her as my eyes

was so happy. I hadn’t lost them. There was still

she says

her cry. I hate seeing her heart break. I can see it in her

was killing her.

pull her into my arms since they had

and the baby are going

and

“What?” I stammer.

smile. “You have a baby girl. Her name

couldn’t hold them back any more, so they fell

beautiful name, but I was afraid Ava would be pissed that they named our baby without

one day and they settled on Iris if she was a girl and

breath gets caught in my lungs, and my parents

you happy with the name?”

that I once mentioned to

me a watery smile, and Dad

be named Kaden. The fact that she took me into consideration and decided to give the baby a name I loved in case it was a

any of us can say anything, a nurse

her father; you deserve to see her,” mom

her and follow the nurse. After they’ve dressed me up, she leads me into a

my daughter.

her so small with tubes attached to her brings me to my

she going to be okay?” I

I was wrong. Right there, Iris becomes my world. I doubt anyone could ever be as important to

doing well so far, and we’re confident that

know every father probably thinks the same, but damn, Iris was

Ava made such a perfect being.

if she hadn’t convinced me when she told me she was pregnant, then I

everything I can to protect her, and because of her,

few more minutes with her before Mary, as she introduced herself, tells me it’s time for

The few minutes I got to

chance with her, but I’ve come to realize that everything happens for a reason. It may not make sense, and maybe it

when mom came and told me that my