Ex-Husband's Regret (Ava and Rowan) novel Chapter 96

Rowan

“What the hell happened to you?” Gabe asks looking at the ice pack that was plastered to my face.

“Ethan” I just grunt. Not in the mood to deal with my brother.

Fuck! I still can’t believe that I got into a fight with the fucking idiot. I was just so pissed and I let his words get to me.

“The cop?” He asks curiously. “Ava’s new man?”

At that I blow. I take the ice pack and throw it against the wall.

“He’s not her fucking man” I snap standing up.

My emotions were raw and close to the surface. I still don’t understand why Ava can’t see that the fucker is a fraud.

I haven’t been able to get anything deeper about him. The reports paint him as an okay guy. Nothing out of the ordinary, but my gut tell me otherwise. There was just something about him that rubbed me wrong. Something that he was hiding. My gut has never been wrong before.

“From what I hear, he is…what happened?”

I take a deep breath, trying to cool down the fire burning inside me.

“We were helping Ava move furniture into her new house and he told me to back off. Said that she was his and he wasn’t going to allow me to ruin things” I admit finally.

Gabe stares at me like he can’t believe what I just said. Like I was trying to figure out what the hell was wrong with me.

“Seriously? That’s what made you get into a fight with him”

“Yes!”

It doesn’t make any fucking sense, but I can’t ignore the feeling. That’s why I have my P.I investigating him.

Gabe says nothing for a while and when he does, I feel like punching the crap out of him.

“Could it be that you’re jealous of him?”

“The fuck I am” I bellow. “Why the hell would I be jealous of him? I don’t have any fucking feelings for Ava, remember?”

What he was saying was absurd. I could never be jealous when it comes to Ava. She is my son’s mother and I’m looking after him. That’s all.

“Look, you were married to her for nine fucking years, it’s hard to stay with someone for that long and not develop any feelings towards them. Especially someone who isn’t truly evil”

I stare at him in shock, before shaking my head. “There’s no fucking way that I developed feelings for her. I stayed married to her because of Noah. My heart always belonged to Emma and you know that. That’s the reason I couldn’t develop any feelings for her”