Ex-Husband's Regret (Ava and Rowan) novel Chapter 107

I sit next to Rowan frozen. My mind unable to comprehend what Ethan just told me. First of all James and Kate Sharp weren’t my parents. Second, he claimed to be my brother.

“What?” I scream as the impact of his words finally sink in. “You slept with me knowing you’re my brother? That’s fucking disgusting”.

“You slept with him? Why would you sleep with him?” Rowan boom, a dangerous aura filling the room. Suffocating the atmosphere around us.

I give him a withering look. “That’s none of your business”.

My thoughts were occupied with Ethan’s revelation. If what he said was the truth, then it meant I had sex with my brother, and he had sex with me knowing the truth.

I felt bile rising up at that thought. Feeling utterly disgusted. What kind of a sick bastard does that? Why would you sleep with someone knowing very well that you were blood related?

The more I got to know about Ethan, the more I wondered if he had been acting all along.

“You aren’t my sister” Ethan speaks up.

“But you just said that Nora and Theo are your parents” I point out.

“I told you I was adapted. That part was true. They did adapt me after my father was killed. We aren’t blood related, so we didn’t commit incest.” He smirks then winks “I can however say, I loved it every time you screamed my name”

I am mortified. My cheeks turn pink, and I look down.

Even if we weren't blood related, it didn't make what he did right. If he's telling the truth then he shouldn't have slept with me at all.

I feel Rowan tense beside me, but I ignore him. It didn’t make sense why his hands were fisted and his jaw clenched.

Brian clears his throat. The sound cuts through the tense and awkward atmosphere.

I remember when he talked fondly about his parents. The love he had was immeasurable.

“So how does Ava fall into all these?” Rowan asks, his eyes glaring at Ethan.

“My grandparents died in a plane crash, but I came to know that they had been looking into the matter about their granddaughter. Turns out they believed there was foul play. They didn’t tell Nora and Theo in case their belief turned out to be nothing. It was around that time I came to know that they had a hidden clause in their will. One that Theo didn’t know about. Everything, including their company was left to their granddaughter in the event Theo retired or God forbid, died. The family lawyer knew about their search and the clause.”

He continues. “I couldn’t allow that. I had worked for that company since I was twenty five. I rose in ranks and I was the one expected to take the CEO position after dad retired. I continued with the search and imagine my shock when I found out that they were right. There was foul play. Nora’s parents paid the doctors and nurses to fake everything, including the death of Nora’s baby”

I just continue watching him. Listening to him as everything unfolded.

“They thought it would be an embarrassment if their congregation found out that Nora had gotten pregnant out of wedlock. When she was pregnant it was easy to hide ‘the sin’ their daughter committed since she never left Theo’s estate, but once the baby was born, things would change. It isn’t easy hiding a baby, so they paid to have the death of their granddaughter faked and then offered her up for adoption”