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..

you?” I don’t recognize the voice though it

“Who’s this?”

on the other side of the phone, making me

to hurt their feelings.

slowly “It’s your mother,

hospital. Rowan had told her and

idea before they could come to

that they are indeed my parents. Noah told me that I’m the one who told him was adopted by Kate

I honestly

whose number it was, and

quick to answer, “It’s okay, I

give you my

today he’d gone 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

don’t mind,” she states

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

such a sweet couple raised such a manipulative man. I mean, who does. that? Who the hell seduces and sleeps with the woman he’s hell–bent on killing? I was having

my head around

and direct. I miss you, Ava. You’re my

her voice is clear as day. Witnessing it even through the

honestly explain inside me.

feel for her. It would destroy me

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

been caught yet.”

why someone would want me dead. Did