Ex-Husband's Regret (Ava and Rowan) novel Chapter 70

There wasn’t any other way out except through the window. Taking a chair, I hit the glass and break it. I push the planks that had been used to bar it until they give way. I push my suitcase through the window and it falls over.

Like I said, I was in the furthest room of the house, so the commotion wouldn’t have alerted anyone. I slowly climb down, careful of the broken shards of glass. I release a sigh of relief when I get down.

Happy that I had managed to escape, I take my suitcase and start dragging it. My eyes on my phone as I order a cab. My happiness is short lived when I bump into someone. I lift my head and I recoil in horror when my eyes clash with the intense greys of Rowan.

“Were you seriously trying to run away with my baby?” he asks, a dangerous edge in his tone.

I throw my hands in the air. Releasing my suitcase in the process.

“I already told mother it’s not your baby” I lie, stepping back.

There was just no way I was going to allow my baby to be raised in such a toxic environment. One where everyone hates his or her mother.

“You dare lie to me” he snarls. “You were a fucking virgin. You may have foooled your mother. but I know that child is mine.”

I’m momentarily taken a back that he would know I was a virgin. We were drunk, especially him.

“How did you know that?” I ask lowly.

“The sheets we slept in had spots of blood”

I shrug off his answer. “It doesn’t matter. The baby could still be anyone’s. I might have slept with countless men afterwards.”

His eyes narrow. There were raging storms behind them.

I pull my gaze away jusy as my cab arrives.

He pauses in his steps and I think I’ve gotten through to him.

“No!” he states firmly. “I may hate you but I won’t allow my child to grow up without his or her father”

With that, he pulls me into the house, where the judge, Travis and my parents were waiting.

About thirty minutes later, we were legally married. Immediately after, Rowan storms out leaving me with my family. I couldn’t even call them that because they looked at me like I was the antichrist.

Soon after, I’m left alone. I place a hand on my belly and smile. Maybe this was a blessing in disguise, I lie to myself.

Right there and then I make a promise to my baby that he or she will be born into a loving family. I was going to make Rowan fall in love me, that way my baby won’t be raised in a broken home.

I smiled after that promise not knowing that Rowan was going to break me in more ways than one.