Ex-Husband's Regret (Ava and Rowan) novel Chapter 65

“I’m okay…I just don’t want to talk to her right now” I muttered loudly.

The music wasn’t too loud but it was loud all the same.

“Are you at a club or something?” he asks just as someone screams that the music playing was their favorite songs.

“Sort of”

“Are you drunk?”

“Just tipsy” I answer, though I was planning to drink myself to oblivion this once.

“Do you have a designated driver?”

I giggle at that. His cop character was coming out to play and I liked that. I also liked that he was concerned about how I would get home.

“No, but I plan to take a taxi” I answered.

“No, you won’t. Give me ten minutes” he says before hanging up.

I frown at my phone. Wondering why he said that. Deciding that it wasn’t that important, I push it to the back of my mind. Today was all about forgetting and letting myself go.

I don’t know how long it was when I feel someone sliding in the seat next to mine. I look up and I’m surprised to find Ethan’s blue eyes staring at me.

“Ethan, how are you here?” I ask in confusion.

“I told you I’d be here in ten when we talked, don’t you remember?” he asked back.

How do I tell him that I had no one to celebrate my birthday with? That no one even remembers the day I was born? Even when I was married to Rowan, he used to forget and ignore my birthday each year. How do I tell him that my family hates me so much that they stopped celebrating my birthdays nine years ago?

I shrug my shoulders. “There’s no one to celebrate with me. I would have celebrated with Noah but as you know he isn’t here. The rest of my family hates me so much that they don’t care if I turned a year older”

He looks a bit shocked at my words for a moment before recovering. He gets down from his barstool and helps me down. Silently taking my hand, he leads me to a private booth where he helps me sit then sits right next to me.

He then turns and faces. “Why do you say that? I know something happened with your family, it’s written all over your face.” He pauses for a while before continuing. “Does it have something to do with Rowan, what happened? I see the pain you try to hide. Why do you say your family hates you?” the shoot from his mouth like sharp arrows.

I stare at him. If I was going to try and build a relationship with Ethan then I had to come clean. What I did could ruin my image in his eyes but he needed to know the truth either.

I take a deep breath. “It's because when I was eighteen I slept with Emma's boyfriend and ended pregnant.”