Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn - Season 3 Episode 14

Rowan releases a groan uncomfortably. “Can we not talk about this? It was years ago.”

“To answer your question, yes. I was still a virgin… Anyway,” I paused. “I told Calvin about the baby. I didn’t want the child and I wanted to get rid of it, but he wouldn’t let me.”

“You wanted an abortion?” Mom asks, her voice ringing with horror and disappointment.

I couldn’t do anything, but nod my head. “Calvin threatened to tell you and dad if I went ahead with my plans. I didn’t want you to know about my mistake, so I agreed to carry the baby to term and he would keep his mouth shut. It was the worst period because I was forced to carry a baby I didn’t want but had

no other choice.”

“That was during the time you completely stayed away.” Travis whispers. “You wouldn’t even allow us to

come visit you.

I’d made excuses during that time.

When I got bigger, Calvin took me to a house his grandfather owned, which he left to him when he died. I didn’t want word to get back to Rowan. That’s where I stayed until I gave birth.

“I convinced the school to let me take online classes, and since I was actually doing well, there wasn’t a need to call you or anything. I stayed with Calvin off campus until I gave birth.”

I see Mom’s eyes fill. I know that it hurts her that she wasn’t there when her grandson was born, but it was

my decision and I had decided I didn’t want the baby.

“When I gave birth, I told the nurses to give the baby to Calvin. I didn’t want anything to do with him. To me, my job was done and now I could be free from the shackles Calvin tied around me when he forced

me to keep the baby”

“You didn’t even look at your own child?” Mom asks.

“No. I didn’t want to. To me he was the symbol of my worst mistake. I didn’t want to see him, hold him or

be in his life”

I know it makes me look like an absolute bitch, but I honestly don’t care. It was my decision, and it’s what

I wanted.

I left the hospital the morning after. Calvin worked two jobs just so he could afford the bill for the hospital. I didn’t care about how the baby was. How he was doing, what he was eating, and so on. All I wanted to do was forget that I’d had another man’s baby.

“And you continued living your life like he didn’t exist, right? Like he was nothing at all?” Mom asks,

standing up

“Mom…”

“Just shut up!” she yells before repeating softly. “Just shut up. Today, you’ve managed to destroy the remaining piece of my heart. As if losing your father and Ava wasn’t punishment enough, now I find out what a cruel daughter I really have…I can’t even look at you right now; I just can’t.”

With that, she walks away. Leaving me sobbing on the floor.

I look at the rest, and one by one, they walk away too. Travis is the last to leave.

He shakes his head in what I think is disgust.

“Of all the people, I never expected this from you, Emma. Not you,” he says, and then he too walks away.

I stay on the ground, crying. Everything had been perfect before she walked here and ruined everything. This was Ava’s F***ing fault. Her and her big mouth. I will never forgive her for this. Never.