Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M novel Chapter 527

I pull myself up straight, my back ramrod, as I try to give myself some false bravado. I try to get the words out. To tell her that I am okay, but my tongue is heavy, and the words refuse to leave my mouth.

She gently pats my shoulders. “I understand. Go and take a seat. It looks like your son needs a shoulder to lean on right now. You can be each other’s anchor.”

I do the only thing I can. I nod my head before leaving. I get to Gunner and sit next to him before pulling him onto my lap. We hug each other, holding on to one another.

I don’t know how long it is when I feel someone shaking me. I focus on the person only to find Ava staring at me. Her brows pulled down, her mouth turned down, and her eyes full of worry.

“We are all here,” she mumbles softly before sitting next to me. “Is she still in surgery?”

“Yes,” I croak out the word that feels to have been pulled from deep down.

“What happened?” Travis asks, holding their mother, who seems lost in his hands.

She seems like she has checked out. Or maybe she’s also remembering. So far, three of her family members have been in the hospital. One of them never came out alive, the other one was a close call, and now Emma.

Everyone who knows her is here. Travis, their mom, Ava and Rowan, Connier and Reaper, Letty, Gabriel, and his wife. Rowan and Gabriel’s parents too. The only one missing is Molly. I wonder if anyone has informed her about her best friend.

“It was my fault,” Gunner whispers. “We were in the garden when I heard Rex from across the street. She wanted to get him, but I insisted that I should get him. I didn’t see the car. She pushed me out of the way, and she got hit instead.”

I rub his back, trying to comfort him. Emma saved our son, but got hurt in the process. I don’t know what to do with that knowledge.

“It’s my fault,” Gunner cries brokenly, his pain shattering my heart to pieces.

I hate seeing him like this. I hate seeing him broken. I hate seeing him blame himself. Seeing the broken look in his eyes is killing me. Destroying me from the inside out.

Kate kneels down and takes his hand before kissing the back of it. “It’s not your fault and don’t you ever think like that, okay?”