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.

ready to kill me as his eyes seared me with hate. I didn’t mind at

he turns around with Noah, and they follow

I tell her as my eyes

I hadn’t lost them.

Ethan,” she says as tears fall

seeing her heart break. I can

was killing her.

into my arms since they had removed

too, mom,” I breathe. “And don’t worry. Ava and the baby are going to be

dad says, and mom and I let each

“What?” I stammer.

a radiant smile. “You have a baby girl. Her name

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

I was afraid Ava would be pissed that they named our baby without

and they settled on

gets caught in my

Aren’t you happy with the

just that

watery smile, and Dad gives me a

named Kaden. The fact that she took me into consideration and

say

arranged it. You’re her father; you deserve to see her,” mom

and follow the nurse. After they’ve dressed me up, she

my daughter.

her so small with tubes attached to her brings me to

to be okay?” I

there, Iris becomes my world.

that she’ll be okay,” she answers

probably thinks the

to believe that Ava made such a perfect

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

in prison for the next few years, but I will do everything I can to protect her, and because

as she introduced herself, tells me

F***ing heartbroken to leave my daughter, but I have no other choice. The few minutes I

me in ways I can’t explain. I will forever regret ruining my chance with her, but I’ve come to realize that everything happens for a reason. It may not

mom came and told me