Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

Chapter 0280

I’m seated in the living room, going over some words and numbers. If I ever want to go back to teaching.

then I need to relearn words and numbers

Iris was sleeping in a portable crib that I dragged from upstairs. I didn’t like the idea of leaving her in her room all by herself all the time. So here we are. She was just chilling while I basically studied all over

again.

My head was still reeling from everything I’d learned yesterday about Ethan. I still can’t believe that he played me in such a cruel manner. That I hadn’t suspected a thing during the months he and I were

together.

I don’t know what pushed me into his arms in the first place. Was it because Emma came back and I wanted Rowan to see that his relationship with her didn’t affect me? Or was it because I’d been so desperate and starved of affection that I’d fallen for the first man who showed interest in me?

It frustrated me that I didn’t know what had been going on in my mind when it all happened or what drove me. Unless I get my memory back, then I’ll always wonder what motivated my actions.

My phone rings, pulling me from my thoughts.

I pick it up, but unfortunately, I can’t read the number that was flashing on the screen. So far, the only numbers that were programmed on the phone were Rowan’s, the driver’s, my b*dyguards, and Noah’s

school office.

After a second of debating whether to pick it, I tap on the green answering icon.

“Hello?” I ask tentatively..

I don’t recognize the voice

“Who’s this?”

on the other side of the phone, making me feel

to hurt their feelings.

slowly “It’s your

Rowan had told her

they

him was

I honestly didn’t mean

sorry, I just didn’t know whose number

to answer, “It’s

Rowan give you my

to work reluctantly. If it weren’t for the fact that he had an important meeting, he would have stayed. He did promise to come

you don’t

the few hours I was with her at the hospital, she seemed like a really sweet woman. I’d wanted Rowan to tell me about their story. How it is, I ended up as Kate and James daughter. He told me that it wasn’t his story to tell and that he would leave it to them to

who does. that? Who the hell seduces and sleeps with the woman he’s hell–bent on killing?

around that particular

you to lunch,” she begins, pulling me from my thoughts. “I will be honest and direct. I miss you, Ava. You’re my

in her voice is clear as day. Witnessing

honestly explain inside me.

destroy

really don’t know about that,” I tell her truthfully. “Rowan says I’m not safe

been caught yet.”

would want me dead. Did I maybe piss someone off so much that