Ex-Husband's Regret (Ava and Rowan) novel Chapter 42

Emma.

I haven’t moved an inch since Rowan left. I felt like the walls were closing in on me and I had no escape. No way to numb the pain I was feeling inside.

Everything hurt and I didn’t even know how to stop it. I didn’t know what to do or how to react.

Why was this happening to me? That’s the question I keep asking myself, but there is no answer for it. There is no hint on why I was still going through shit even after getting the guy.

I feel the trickle of tears as they fall down my face. I hated being weak. I hated crying. I rub the tears away angry at myself for letting them fall in the first place.

When daddy died, I was broken. I was his princess and he was my hero. I didn’t get to spend a lot of time with him because I moved to a different city, but when we did, it was awesome.

I thought I wouldn’t recover his death. That there wasn’t a bright side to it. Then Rowan and I talked. He told me that he and Ava were divorced and asked if I could give us a chance.

I have been in love with him since I can remember. I never stopped loving him even after he broke my heart. My love for him kept burning throughout the nine years we were apart. That’s how strong it was.

My family had kept me in the loop on things between Rowan and Ava. I knew that despite being married and no matter how Ava tried, Rowan kept her at a distance. He was cold to her and he never fell for her. He always asked after me. That his feelings for me were still obvious.

All these things considered, I didn’t understand why right now he was all of a sudden interested in her life. Did my family miss something when it came to them? Something was just not adding up.

I stand up and start pacing. I felt like I was going crazy with so many unanswered questions. I needed to talk to someone. Someone who would help clear my doubts.

Picking up my phone, I call the one person that knows all there is to know about my life. She answers on the first ring.

“Hey, darling…how is happily ever after treating you?” she greets, excitement in her voice.

“Tell me why you are in doubt and then we can work from there” she says softly and calmly.

I am one of the best lawyers. I study the facts before coming up with an attack plan. I make sure I am able to think clearly so that I can disable my enemies. Yet, when it comes to Rowan, everything I’ve learned is thrown out of the window.

“Rowan has been obsessive with Ava. He thinks I don’t know but for the past weeks, he’s been constantly checking on and calling her. He hired bodyguards for her, bought her a brand new car and hired someone to look after her”

I never told him that I knew because I wanted him to tell me himself. I didn’t understand why he was doing all these things if he truly didn’t give a fuck about her. In my head, that was going beyond what’s normal for an ex-husband to do for his ex-wife.

“Why would he do all that? Did something happen to ‘she who shall not be named’ or something?” I can tell she’s puzzled. I can even imagine her brows pinched as tries to come up with an answer.

“Seems like she’s a target, she got shot during daddy’s burial and a couple of weeks ago, her car got blown up and she was injured” I tell her everything that happened. “Personally, I think she did all these things to steal Rowan’s attention from me” I finish