Ex-Husband's Regret (Ava and Rowan) novel Chapter 36

Rowan.

I sat at my desk going through some papers that needed my attention. I try to focus but I can’t. My mind still on the fact that Ava ignored my call yet again. If it wasn’t for hiring Lydia, I doubt I would ever know how she was fairing.

I still can’t believe how much she’s fucking changed. It was safe to say that the Ava I knew was long gone and in her place is a total stranger.

When Emma decided that she was moving back, I was afraid that Ava would cause us problems. That she would be a nuisance like she was back when she was a teenager. She proved me wrong though.

I should be happy that she was keeping her distance. That she wasn’t causing me trouble, but a part of me was bothered by it. It was so fucking strange how bothered I was and I hated how she was now constantly on my fucking mind.

I eventually give up on trying to focus and stand up. Moving to the windows, I stare outside, trying to clear Ava from my mind.

“Sir, the chief inspector is here” Christine, my secretary tells me.

I was so lost in thought that I didn’t even hear her entering my office.

“Let him in” I turn to face her before going back to my chair.

Brian, the chief enters just as I was settling down. We shake hands and then he takes his seat.

“Do you have anything for me?” I ask him.

Brian was around sixty years. Despite his age, he was still fit and on top of that, he was still sharp. He was a retired detective and had also served in the army when he was younger.

“Nothing yet…we can’t find the gang and we don’t have anything that connects them to the two incidents when your ex-wife was hurt”

I’ve been working closely with him since James was shot and killed. The gang seemed to disappear underground after that and no one can find any of them.

“There’s got to be something, anything that could help us figure out why the fuck they were targeting Ava” I was frustrated.

When Ava said that the gang shouldn’t be going after her, she was right. If we’re being honest, given how things are with her family and me, the one they should target is Emma. It made no sense at all.

“I wish I had good news for you Mr. Wood but I don’t. These people whoever they are know what they’re doing. They’re professionals. There hasn’t been a single clue at the crime scenes so we don’t even have a starting point” he says through clenched jaws

Within minutes, Drake, the head of my security team enters my office.

“You called boss”

His voice is unnaturally deep, but it might be because he once got his throat slit. The doctors were able to save him but his vocal cords were irrevocably damaged.

“I want you and two others on Ava twenty four seven. Close enough to step in if there is any danger but far enough that she won’t notice that she’s being tailed”

“She’s still in danger?” he asks.

“According to Brian…let her not leave your sight even for a second, am I understood? I want her safe and protected at all costs”

He looks at me strangely but he agrees,

“On it, boss” he says then he’s out the door.