Ex-Husband's Regret (Ava and Rowan) novel Chapter 25

Ethan is seated on her right with a bunch of open cards. Ava is seated slightly upwards. Despite the bandage on her head, and the scratches on her face, she was smiling and it transformed her face.

She faces me and the smile slips from her face.

“Get out” she demands.

I guess she was back to being ice cold.

“Not gonna happen, Ava” I calmly tell her and take a seat on her left.

Her face is contorted in fury and her eyes are blazing. She was okay yesterday so what the hell happened?

“I don’t want you here, so you could you just fucking leave, and take those two with you…I don’t need any of you here”

I assume she was referring to Emma and Travis. Something happened. Yesterday she was cordial but today she was different. Maybe I shouldn’t have left her with Emma and Travis.

“You need to calm down, Ava, remember you’re not well and you shouldn’t be stressing yourself out” Ethan cuts in.

He takes her hand and gently squeezes it. She looks at their joined hands and then his face. Her eyes soften and she loses the angry heat that had consumed her.

I ball my fist. The need to wrench her hand from his almost consuming. Shouldn’t I be happy that she had gotten her clutches in another man? I should feel relieved that her obsession with me was finally over, so why wasn’t I happy seeing this? Why did it piss me off seeing that soft look directed at Ethan and not me?

Before I can get any answer to those question, the door opens and the chief of police enters the room.

Ethan lets go of Ava’s hands and stands up.

“Chief” he greets.

“Good to see you Ethan” he claps him in the back before turning to us. “Miss Sharp, I was hoping to ask you some questions”

“Look, I have people who don’t like me, my family for example but I doubt they would want me dead”

The chief looks at her for while then writes something down. Something about the way the chief was asking these questions wasn’t making sense?

“Seems like the bomb was installed when you were in church and was activated when you used your car keys…did you notice any strange sounds coming from your car before you unlocked it?” he asked her

Ava shakes her head. “No, I was a bit distracted”

I feel guilty. She had been distracted because of me. Because I had called to yell at her.

“Why are you asking her this? I thought her attack was related to the criminal gang” I ask him. There was something I was missing.

“That’s what we originally thought with the first shoot out, but with what happened on Sunday, we have reason to believe that Miss Ava is being specifically targeted. What we aren’t sure is whether it is by the gang or someone else” he finishes speaking, leaving us completely shell shocked