Ex-Husband's Regret (by Evelyn M.M) novel Chapter 108

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“My search led me to you. I knew I had to take you out. If you didn’t exist, then the clause was null and void. I came here and after asking about you, I got a whole lot of information. Given how people hated you including your husband and family, I thought I would be doing them a favour. After all, a woman who would steal and trap her sisters boyfriend couldn’t be someone worth knowing or good for that matter”

My breath catches at that. I still can’t believe that same man that assured me that the night with Rowan nine years ago wasn’t my fault, is the same man that thought just for that I didn’t deserve to live.

I try to breath in through the pain, but it’s fucking hard.

“I have to clarify that the first attempt on your life wasn’t on me, but I took the opportunity. I saw a chance to get close to you and I took it. What better way than to be a hero to get you to trust me. It worked and you opened your door to me.”

Fuck, it hurts so much. To know he played me from the beginning and I was too blind to see it, just tears me apart.

“Why would you need to get close to me if you had already hired goons to kill me?” I whisper. That’s what I wanted answers to. Why get to know me if he wanted me dead.

He shrugs. "I thought it would be fun to toy around with you and pay you back for being a terrible person. You were so trusting and gullible, it made things easy for me. Besides that, getting to know was my my plan B. In case those I hired failed, then it would be easier to kill you myself if I was close to you.”

I look down and clench my hands. I felt like a fucking fool. Here I was developing feelings for him while all the while he was planning to destroy me.

“It was supposed to be easy, get to know you then destroy you. I didn’t count on…” he stops before he can finish the sentence. His eyes roaming the room before landing on me.

For the first time since we found the truth, something passes in his eyes. Guilt? Love? I can’t tell because it was too quick for me to read into it. He soon after shuts down. Turning cold once more.

I wanted to know what he stopped himself from saying, but I’m too much of a coward to ask. Besides, in light of everything he has done, does it even matter?

“But even if Ava had died, wouldn’t the company have fallen into Noah’s hands?” Letty asks after a while.

“Not really. First of all, I deleted every evidence of her existence just so the family lawyer wasn't able to track her and second, the will doesn’t mention anything about the children Ava would have”

“This is insane, you know that? You're telling us that not only is Ava not related to us, but our parents probably knew and never said anything this whole time” Travis says standing up.