Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

Chapter 0511

I am honestly disgusted listening to her right now. Who the hell does that to someone else? Gabriel is a living being with feelings. What they did to him was downright cruel.

"You know the rest," she pauses before continuing. "When you blacklisted me and Paul, life became unbearable. We couldn't stay here given that we couldn't even get jobs. We fled abroad but broke up soon after. I'm so sorry, Gabe. I'm sorry that I used you and didn't treasure what we had. It's only after we were apart that I realized my feelings for you, but it was already too late. You hated me and didn't want to see me."

My heart races, and my breathing deepens. Even though it's cold, sweat trickles down my back. I am so afraid. So, fucking afraid that he will choose her. This is his chance to be with the first woman he ever loved. I try to control my trembling as I wait to hear what he'll say. As I wait to hear his answer to her confession. After all, first loves are hard to forget.

*None of that matters," he finally says after a while.

What did that mean? Does he mean it doesn't matter because he still loves her and has forgiven her?

am about to faint

pass in his grey eyes, but it's too quick for me to read. My heart

want me

I said, what you did doesn't matter now because your actions led me to my wife," he begins. I look at the side of his face in confusion. Say what? "I no longer love you, Ashley, and I haven't in a long time. My heart belongs to Harper, and I wouldn't change anything that happened if it means she still ends

in its tight grip as I realize that Gabriel is choosing me. He is picking me over his first

am where I belong and with whom I belong.

jumping for joy. I know she's hurting, but that doesn't dim the

with your life and don't ever look for me." There wasn't anything in it. No anger or bitterness. It was just

brings our joined hands to his lips before kissing mine. He turns us around and

ask slowly, almost in a whisper.