Ex-Husband's Regret

Once he leaves, the rest go back to Ava’s room while I stay back for a little bit. I just needed time to breathe. Everything was happening so fast and so differently. I was having a hard time catching up.

I get back to her room after I’m sure that I’m more in control. I find Letty, Corrine, and Calvin introducing

themselves.

“You’re nerdy Cal,” Ava says with a smile. He gives her a glare, but there isn’t any heat behind it. “It’s such

a small world that our sons are now best friends.”

“it is,” he simply says.

No one mentions that Gunner is also Emma’s son.

“So, mom, when are you going to see Iris?” Noah asks after the introductions are over.

“Can they bring her to me? I’m eager to see her.” her smile is radiant and beautiful. Something that I

haven’t seen in a long time. “I still can’t believe we have a daughter”

Damn it. How am I supposed to break this to her?

Seeing my dilemma, Nora picks up the phone from the side table and calls the nurse station. Requesting

for Nora to be brought.

It doesn’t take long before Mary arrives with the precious bundle.

“It’s good to see you up Ava, there’s someone who has waited long enough to see her mother” she smiles at her and places Iris in Ava’s arms.

She then leaves, and promises to come back later to pick her up.

“Oh dear Lord” Ava breathes. “She’s so beautiful”

“She looks just like you, mom” Noah, adds.

Iris didn’t fuss or anything like that. Probably because she was asleep. We all watch in awe as Ava falls in love with Iris. A daughter she doesn’t remember conceiving.

When Noah complains of hunger, Corrine and Letty offer to take him to buy something to eat while buying for the rest of us. Cal excuses himself. He had to go pick up Gunner from school.

Where is the rest of the family? Do they really don’t care about me?”

hed completely forgotten about them. They thought that Ava wouldn’t them here now that she was

They’ll be here soon enough, but there is something you have to be prepared for” I tell her.

There were things that were just too big and too fucking important to hide. I was about to tell her about James being dead when a gasp leaves her mouth.

I turn her worriedly only to find her staring at Iris with shock and confusion.

What is it, Ava”

“Why are her eyes blue? No one in your family has blue eyes and if what you’re telling me it’s true and mother and father are not my parents, then she shouldn’t have blue eyes

This is the other thing I wasn’t willing to lie to Ava about. Iris’s real father. My eyes slide to her parents, but they also looked panicked. Looks like they won’t be of any help.

“She got them from her dad” I take a deep breath.

“You’re her dad”

“No, I’m not”

“Oh my God. Did I cheat you? Is that what happened?” she asks in panic while frantically trying to soothe

Iris who was now screaming her little lungs out. Têxt belongs to NôvelDrama.Org.

I don’t know if it’s because Ava’s panic spooked her, or because Ava was basically a stranger to her.

Taking Iris from her arms, I hold her close to me before kissing her cheek. She immediately settles down and goes back to sleep.

“It’s a long story and I’ll tell you one of these days, but you didn’t cheat on me”

You better”

Maybe by the time she demands answers, I will have come up with a reasonable explanation for her, as to why Iris had a different father without making her think that she cheated.

“So when am I going home” she’s a bit more calm as she asks.

Tomorrow

Sereat, I can’t wait to be back home.”

stare at her as a small smile forms on my lips. I know I wasn’t willing to lie to her when the doctor

ested we hide the truth, but maybe this is my second chance with her. This is my chance to bring her love for me because I can’t fucking live with