Ex-Husband's Regret (by Evelyn M.M) novel Chapter 9

“What do you want me to say? You know I never lied to you. You always knew I loved her.” She throws the dishtowel down angrily. “That didn’t stop you from using my body did it? Gosh I hate you. I don’t know what I saw in you to begin with. I don’t know why I wasted so much of my time and energy on you” I grind my teeth at her words. Her words angering me. Yes we did sleep together during our marriage but it was just to scratch an itch. I took vows and despite the fact I didn’t love her. I wasn’t going to break them by cheating on her. 
“I’m not here to talk about the past, I’m here to talk about Noah” I say changing the topic. 
It was draining going round and round. I needed to say what I came here to say then leave before I said or did something I would regret later. 
Noah’s name gets her attentions. She doesn’t fire back. Instead she opens one of the cabinets and takes out a bottle of medicine. Uncapping it using one hand, she pops two pills into her mouth and swallows. 
Reading the label, I realize it’s pain medication. 
“How’s the arm?” I ask. 
“You came here to talk, so talk Rowan… we both know you don’t care about me so quite with the fake concern” she snaps. 2 I clench my hand and all but yell. “Damn it Ava!” “What? I’m just stating the truth. Are you going to talk? If not you can leave. I’ll text you when Noah is wakes up” She stands up and goes to leave but I clump my hand around her uninjured hand. She immediately wrenches her hand from me as if my touch burned her. 
“Don’t touch me!” she snarls. 
Iraise my hand. Damn it! Is this how she was going to behave from now on? Are we forever going to be at each other’s throats? We had a son for fuck’s sake. 
“This childish behavior is one of the reasons why I always preferred Emma. Why I fell in love with her” I ground out, my temper getting the better of me. 
Her face twists. Her eyes growing colder than I could ever thought possible. 
“Say what you came to say then get out of my fucking house. I won’t have you insulting me and comparing me to Emma. My behavior doesn’t concern you, we are divorced…so if you want to give lectures on anyone about behaviors go give them to the love of your life” I don’t say anything for a while. We glare at each other. Each one refusing to back down. Looks like she finally grew a backbone. 
“Look I’m sorry” I concede. 
” She’s fucking right. I shouldn’t have said that. I shouldn’t have compared her to Emma. 
We couldn’t be fighting. It would affect Noah seeing us at each other’s throat. It would hurt him and I couldn’t have that. 
“You can take that st* pid apology of yours and shove up it up…” I cut her off warningly. “Ava…” “Fine…what did you want to talk about, hurry up I don’t have a lot of time” she gives me a devious smirk. “Since I’m busy entertaining men” she throws my words back at me. 
I groan but ignore her. 
“Your mom and my parents will be going into witness protection because of the case with the criminal gang. I want Noah to go with them” She turns serious. “Why?” “Because I played a part in reporting them and sinking their business. I also got threats from them. and they know my weakness is Noah…” “And Emma, let’s not forget your precious darling” she interrupts me. Her voice dripping with sarcasm and disgust. 
I ran my hand through my hair in frustration. Heaven’s knows it’s been a trying morning and Ava is hell bent on pushing my fucking buttons. 
Ignoring her I continue. “Seeing as your father is already dead because of this, I can’t risk Noah getting hurt” “Why didn’t you tell me this yesterday?” “You left before we could tell you everything” I point out. 
“For how long will he be gone?” “Till the threat has been eliminated and the culprits caught” She nods her head and sighs. “When will he be leaving?” “The day after tomorrow” I can see she doesn’t want to be parted from Noah But she also knows that this is the only way to make sure he is safe. One thing we had in common was our love for him. We would both do anything for him. 
“Okay. I’ll start packing for him. You’ll spend the today with him and I’ll spend tomorrow with him. I think that’s fair” “Alright then” I agree. 
She then leaves to go and wake up our son. It’s as I was waiting for them that I realized what had been missing in Ava’s eyes since yesterday The love that used to shine in her eyes when she looked at me was completely gone. 
There wasn’t anything there anymore. In fact, she now looked at me like I always looked at her. With nothing but resentment.