Ex-Husband's Regret (Ava and Rowan) novel Chapter 68

I look at him and push away my pain. He looked like he needed someone, so I walk to him and place my hand on his shoulder. Trying to give him comfort.

Instead, he reacts violently. He pushes me so forcefully that I fall.

“Don’t fucking touch you, bitch!” he roars, anger and bitterness radiating off him in waves.

I stand up, tears filling my eyes. “Rowan, I never planned on this happening.”

I can tell he’s already lost to me.

“Just fucking leave... I never want to see your face ever again,” he says, sitting down on the bed, heartbroken. Tears swimming in his eyes.

The look on his face breaks my heart. He looked torn and shattered. I wanted to help him, but I knew he wouldn’t accept my help. So instead, I leave.

I wanted this to be a bad dream, but it wasn’t. I had messed up big time.

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Two days later

“Where is that fucking bitch?” I hear Emma scream from downstairs.

My heart pounds, almost breaking my chest. Deep down, I knew that Rowan had told her the truth. She was now out to get blood.

Before I can do hide like the coward I am, my bedroom door flies open, and Emma walks in. She was crying; mascara was running down her face, a battle between anger and pain waging war in her eyes.

I don’t have time to react before she slaps me. Pain stings my cheek. I don’t stop her when she does it again and again until I’m cowering and crying on the floor. This was my penance for what I had done.

“Emma!” She was about to hit me again when father’s voice stops her. “What is the meaning of this? Why are you hitting your sister?”

I'm taken aback. That she would suggest I raped him. Why wouldn’t she believe me when I said I was drunk? That I didn’t intentionally set out to hurt her.

“Daddy, what am I going to do? She's ruined everything. How can I look at Rowan the same knowing he slept with this slut” she crosses the room and gets into father’s arms.

Father looks at me like I’m the scum of the earth. Like I wasn’t also his daughter.

“I didn’t raise you to be slut, Ava. For what you’ve done to your sister, I’ll never forgive you” he says before walking away with a crying Emma.

His words hurt but I push it away. It was also on the tip of my mouth to tell him that he never raised me at all, but I hold back.

“I hope you’re happy now…it’s sad that you would stoop so low just so you can steal a man that doesn’t belong to you. You disgust me Ava, I don’t know why god cursed me with you as a daughter” mother says before also leaving.

I’m left on the floor crying. Feeling more alone than ever. Wishing that I could wake up from this terrible dream. Knowing that my life will never be the same.