Ex-Husbands Regret Chapter 481-Gabriel.I pull away from Harper and just stare at her. The woman that I’d fallen in love with just mere months of her being back into my life.After Ashley, I thought my heart was dead for good. That it would never beat again for another woman. I was content with just using them for their bodies and then dumping them when I got bored before jumping to another one.I never saw Harper coming. I wasn’t prepared for her arrival and the changes she’d bring back to my life. She was a silent storm. One that consumed me and I let her, because there was just something about her that drew me in.I look at her now, and I am filled with gratefulness. Thankful that she’s decided to give me a chance. To give us a chance. She’s everything I’ve ever wanted. I didn’t see it back then because I was blinded by pain and betrayal, but I do see it now, and I’m grateful to whoever it’s that granted us a second chance. I internally vow not to take it for granted and to be the man who deserves her.With Harper’s body against mine, I lead her through the room and right up to the bedroom where I’ve imagined being buried inside her a million times.“Are you sure about this? Are you sure you want this?”Her brow rises. “Are you really trying to argue with me about what I want?”“No, darling, I’m reminding myself that, instead of giving me the middle finger and walking away, you’re here with me, where I want you.” I smile at her and watch as her face goes soft.Her gaze widens as I stalk toward her again.We’ll leave in the morning. It gives me just enough time for me to make her mine again, completely and without room for doubt in her mind.Harper’s lips part in a gasp, right as I reach for her. My hand slides around the back of her neck, anchoring her to me.My lips taste, lick, and bite hers until they’re red, puffy and sensitive from where my facial hair rubs against them. I don’t stop, though. Her fingers grab my tie, loosening it and taking it off over my head, before reaching for the buttons on my shirt and pushing it off until my chest is completely bared to her.I love how bold she is in this moment and that she wants me like I want her.Nothing was going to stop me from taking her, from taking what was always mine. I just need to know though.“Who was your first?” Cóntent belong to NôvelDráma. Org.Her eyes open and collide with mine. I can see apprehension in her gaze, but she’s not fearful. I don’t want her to be sad or scared. I was with someone else, and it’s not like she had to remain a virgin just for me.I just need to know. I haven’t been with anyone since before I tracked her down.Once I make her mine tonight, need her to know that there is no one else for her but me and that I only belong to her. The same goes for me. “Don’t ask questions you don’t want answers to,” she replies, probably hoping it will coax me into letting it go. My brow rises, and my hands shove under her dress and pull it up and off over her head.“Is that right?” Shivers crawl over her skin, and her eyes darken with lust.I hook my fingers in the waistband of the panties she’s wearing and yank them down, bringing my face level to her torso. I help her get her feet untangled while placing heated kisses against the smooth skin of her abdomen. Her hands tangle in my hair and a breathy little moan slides between her lips.My hands slide behind her legs, lifting her as I get to my feet. I walk us farther into the room and over to the bed. I set her down on the edge, my lips dancing against hers once more.I take off her strapless bra, while never separating our mouths. Her hands find me again, sliding my dress pants and boxers off until we’re both naked. I press her into the bed, twisting our bodies and shoving her toward the middle.With Harper next to me, I lean over and play with her nipples until they pebble and then suck each one into my mouth. She gasps, and it’s music to my ears. I slide my hand toward her pussy, brushing my fingers along her lips and spreading her open.I rub her clit and watch as her body m begins to move against my hand, looking for the release it knows I can give her.*Does that feel good, baby?” My voice Pm is raspy with need , and continue playing with her.“Yes.” Her back arches.grin against the skin at her neck.Answer my question or I’ll stop. ”*You wouldn’t.”I suck the sensitive skin on her neck, biting lightly, then letting go.Ex-Husbands Regret Chapter 482-“Try me.”She bites her lip, and to prove my point, I start to pull my finger out of her.“You,” Her voice is low, almost nervous.My eyes clart up to hers, and I can see the nervousness there. I’m shocked but happy at the same time. I don’t remember that night clearly. I didn’t really think she was a virgin when we first slept together.“After Liam, has there been anyone else?”Amelia shakes her head, and her cheeks blush again. I really don’t care if it’s just Liam or three other guys, plus Liam. I feel territorial about her and want to erase his touch from her body completely.I slide my fingers back inside her tight opening, thrusting hard enough that a gasp leaves her lips. My palm slides against her clit at the same time, until she’s riding my hand and panting, her skin pink and slightly sweaty.Hearing her admit it felt like a bullet to the heart, but I was expecting it, and in the end, it doesn’t matter. One guy or five, none of them matter anymore. I wasn’t the only man to have had her, but I damn sure will be her last. Harper was made for me.*You. Are. Mine,” I remind her, punctuating each word while my finger hooks to rub against her G-spot.She cries out her orgasm against my lips, and I swallow down her pleasure.Before she comes down completely, I slide between her legs, my hands anchoring on her hips before bringing my face to her opening. She’s wet and glistening, just for me.“I want to hear you say it, Harper,” I warn her, before kissing her clit.She jumps at the contact, her skin already sensitive.“Open your eyes and watch.”Her eyes blaze while she looks at me. Her gaze is hooded while I lick and suck at her pussy, drinking from her, tasting her.“Gabriel,” my name is torn from her lips, “oh, fuck.”“Let me hear you, baby,” I tell her, before diving back in, biting her clit before lapping at it with my tongue. “Say it.”Her chest rises and falls as I continue tormenting her, keeping her right on the edge.“I’m yours. Gabriel, Gabriel,” she repeats while I use my tongue to push her over the edge until she comes hard, all over my face, her juices dripping to my chin.“Good, girl,” I praise her, realizing how much I love her this way.Needy and completely dependent on me giving her pleasure. Her legs fall away, and I shift up, until I’m lying above her tiny body, framing her face with my arms, consuming her space, ready to claim more of her.Harper’s breathing is heavy, her pupils are blown, and the afterglow of her orgasm fills the space between us. Her hair fans out over the blankets and pillows. Her eyes glisten. She’s perfect beneath me. She’s fucking breathtaking.She bites her lip, her tiny hands moving up to my shoulders, holding on. I grab her leg, angling it up and hooking it around my hip, before slowly pushing in.“I’m not on the pill” she screams, just before I can fully thrust inside her.Islam inside her in one move. “I. Don’t. Care. I don’t want anything between us and if today leads to another baby, then thank fuck because I want to add to our little family.”“Gabriel,” she moans my name, her grip on my shoulders biting.“You’re so fucking tight. Damn, so fucking wet, so fucking perfect.” I thrust, closing my eyes for a brief moment at the feel of her inside wrapped around me.Once my hips connect with hers, shivers run down my spine, and m warmth spreads across my chest .My grey eyes connect with her obsidian-colored ones, and I can read the emotion in them.My mind reels, trying hard to grasp the enormity of the situation. The way she feels, the way she tastes, the trust and Love in her gaze, it’s trust and love it everything. It feels like how home should feel. I groan, leaning down to kiss her, and make love to her mouth while thrusting in and out of her wet heat.Harper gasps and moans against my lips, her legs moving to wrap around my lower back, her arms moving to hug my neck. I keep kissing her, exchanging breaths and air, as she clings to me.“It’s too much, Gabriel,” she pants, and I kiss her through it, “I’m going to cum.”*So cum, baby,” I encourage her, holding my own release back while I drive deeper into her, hitting her clit with my pelvis.*Cum with me,” She groans against my lips and practically screams her release into the room.Her pussy clamps down, and I thrust a few more times in and out, until I can’t hold back any longer.“I fucking love you, Harper!” I roar, and I let go of my release deep within her core as my orgasm hits me hard. Everything was exactly how it was supposed to be. Perfect.Ex-Husbands Regret Chapter 483-Emma.“Why do you think you refused to let go of Rowan? Why do you think you held on to him for years even knowing that he was married to Ava?”Mia’s question plays in my head as I try to think of a way to answer her. Why did I not let go of Rowan the moment he slept with Ava? Why had I kept holding on despite the fact that he married her and stayed with her for years?Sure, everyone told me how miserable he was. That he and Ava weren’t getting on well. That he treated her like she didn’t exist. Everyone told me that he still loved me and had refused to give Ava a chance.Looking back now though, I’m not as blinded as I was. Despite what everyone told me, he still chose to remain married to her. He could have asked for a divorce anytime he wanted. Hell, the moment Ava was out of school, a bit stable in her job and Noah was a bit older, he could have filed for a divorce. He would have been able to be there for Noah and support him without being married to Ava, yet he never once thought of leaving their marriage.I was surprised when I was told Ava was the one that filed for divorce. We all thought that if they were ever going to separate, it would be at Rowan’s demand, not Ava’s.*Emma?” her sweet voice pulls me back.“Because everyone around me gave me hope.” I begin to explain. “I see it now. I wasn’t able to let go because even though I was miles away in a different city, everyone kept pulling me to the past by reminding me how Rowan was unhappy and miserable with Ava. How he was still in love with me and refused to give Ava and their marriage a chance.”I fall back on my seat and just stare into space as I continue. “It gave me hope.It made me hold on to that hope, thinking our love was great. Otherwise, why would Rowan still hold on to me when he had a wife and son? It also didn’t help that, from when we were young, everyone, especially our mothers would tell us how good we looked together. That we’d make a beautiful couple.”I curse internally as my mind wanders to the past. How much of our so-called love was actually love? Is it really love when you’ve been manipulated to love and want someone? Is it love when you didn’t fall in love by your own design, but because of what your parents kept whispering in your ear?“I see,” Mia whispers softly as she jots something down in her notebook. “And do you think you would have been happy with Rowan had you gotten a second chance? Would you have stayed together had he not slept with Ava? Would what you felt for each other endure real life?”Who said therapy was easy? It isn’t, not at all. It requires you to dig deep and find the answers that you’ve been running from. Answers that you didn’t want to hear so you pushed them down and buried them deep.Would we have been happy?“I don’t think so,” I reply with a sigh. “We would have eventually grown up.Matured into different people. Different from the kids we were back then. We would have realized that we didn’t really love each other. That what we had was young, immature love. No, it wouldn’t have survived us growing up or real life or life away from our parents. We would have eventually realized that we were influenced into falling in love by our mothers, but it wasn’t the real deal.”It had been painful coming to this conclusion two years ago, but I accepted the truth for what it was. Rowan would always be my first love. At least, what I thought love was, at that age. Content belong to NôvelDráma. Org.“And why did you keep Calvin at arm’s length?” she pushes, refusing to give me the chance to collect my thoughts.*The same reason I held on to Rowan. I had hope that Rowan would eventually be mine. That we would eventually get back together. I didn’t want him to find me in love with someone else when it was finally time for him to chase me down.”*And do you think that was fair to Calvin?”“No, it wasn’t,” I push the words past my throat which was clogged with emotion.“I want you to listen to me, Emma, she began as gently as she could.‘What you did to Calvin wasn’t right.You strung him along for yearsCHen could have moved on with his life.Found somebody to love and cherish him, yet you did to him what your family did to you. You kept giving him false hope. You kept leading him to believe that there was a chance between you two every time you went to seek comfort in his arms.”My heart lurches in agony when her words hit me. It feels like someone is repeatedly stabbing my heart with a butcher knife. I can’t stop the tears as they fall down my face. No wonder he didn’t want anything to do with me.“You used him, Emma,” she continues in a soft non-judgemental voice. “He deserved love after loving CO you for so long. He deserved a woman whose heart and hopes weren’t tethered somewhere else.You should have let him go early on because you put him through the same kind of pain that Rowan put Ava through.”I curl into myself as her words hit me like bullets. I was a terrible person. I don’t have an excuse for what I put a good man through . I can’t blame this on my family. I stopped being a child and I should have realized that something had developed between Rowan and Ava the moment they continued staying married for years.Ex-Husbands Regret Chapter 484-Hell, I should have let go the moment Rowan decided to marry Ava. He didn’t have to, but he did, because maybe deep down, something different was working inside him. I should have moved on the moment I realized there wasn’t a future between us.I hate myself because Mia just showed me the extent to which I broke Calvin.He did nothing but love me, while I used him and kept him tethered to me instead of letting him go.“I think that’s enough for today,” Mia says once I’m calmer and my crying has stopped.Today was brutal, but it also shed a lot of light for me.“Thank you,” I sniff, and wipe my nose with the tissue she gives me.“Anytime,” she replies. “Now, I’ll see you the day after tomorrow.”Following my fourth session, we had agreed that I’d be seeing her every other day. I had a lot to unpack and she felt that was the best course of action. Once I was more stable, my sessions would start to dwindle a bit.After giving her hand a squeeze, I walk out of her office, and out of the building.I didn’t really feel like going home, so I just hop into my car and drive around, not really sure where the hell I was going.When I come to a stop, I’m surprised to find myself outside Calvin’s offices. I am not sure if he’s even around. He has a construction company. He’s the boss, but he likes being at the sites. He likes working with his hands and not just sitting behind a desk all day long.What the hell am I doing? I keep asking myself as I get out of my car and walk towards the building. I should turn back, but I can’t seem to stop my legs from moving.His office was on the first floor, so I take the stairs hoping it would give me time to rethink my decision and back out.I get to his floor and immediately head to his office. I push open the glass door, just as his secretary turns to me. “How may I help you?” she smiles politely and in a welcoming manner.“I’m here to inquire about your services. I’m thinking of renovating my house.”Did I sound convincing? The pounding of my heart is the only sound I could hear above the ringing of my ears.“Sure, no problem.” She replies. “The boss is here today so you can speak to him. What’s your name?”*Anna White,” I lie while trying to hide my grimace.*Just a moment,” she types something on her keyboard before raising her head.“You can go in.”She points me in the direction of an office that is on the opposite side. Despite knowing where his offices are, this is the first time I’ve been here.I give her an appreciative nod and then walk towards Calvin’s office. I knock before pushing the door open.Stepping in, I find him bent over his desk working on some papers. Content belong to NôvelDráma. Org.“How can I help you, Anna? Is it okay if I called you Anna? I don’t know if you are married or not. I don’t want to be disrespectful.”His eyes widen, and he freezes in his chair when he pulls his eyes from the papers he was working on, and they fall on me.“What the hell are you doing here?” he growls, gone is the friendly tone he had used a few seconds ago.‘I’m sorry,” I blurt out before I can chicken out. “I’m sorry for what I did to you. I’m sorry for hurting you I’m sorry for denying you a chance to move on and find a better woman.I’m sorry for holding you back. I’m sorry for using you. I’m sorry for the years of pain I’ve put you through.You are a good man, Calvin, and you didn’t deserve the shit I put you through.”I stand rooted near his closed doors, my hand trembling and heart aching. His eyes are wide in shock, but that doesn’t deter me as I continue.*You deserved to be loved, Calvin.You deserved a woman that put you first. You deserved the world. You still do. I’ve never apologized, and I know apologizing doesn’t fix shit , but just wanted to let you know that I am sorry. I’m sorry for taking advantage of your life and not seeing the amazing man you are. If I could take back how I treated you, I would, because you are an amazing man and father and any woman would be lucky to have you. It’s just too bad I hurt you in the process and realized this too late.”Before he can recover from the shock of my words, I turn, open the door com and leave I keep my head down as I pass his secretary’s desk. I don’t want her to see the tears that streak down my cheeks.Like I said, apologies don’t always fix everything, but it was a start. Calvin deserved to know that I am sorry for what I did to him. That I regret what I did to him.Ex-Husbands Regret Chapter 485-Hey Loves, Today there won’t be an update because of a pressing issue.So I’ve read your comments and I want your honest opinion. I get your concerns and I pride myself in listening to my readers because without you, then why am I even writing?First of all, I rushed to finish this book because a lot of you, my lovely readers thought that the book has been going on for so long and they wanted me to complete it. But now, there is a different group that wants me to completely be done with this book before starting on Noah’s.As much as I wanted to give all the couples closure in this book, I’d planned for some of the questions to be answered in Noah’s book…You have all given me food for thought though, and that’s why I wanted you opinion.Let me know if you want Gabriel and Harper’s story to be a bit longer. I know some of you thought it was rushed, so give me your honest opinion if you want their book extended or if you are okay with how it ended, even though there would have been an epilogue.On, Emma and Calvin, should they have a second chance or should they move on to different people. Some think Emma is irredeemable especially given her treatment of Gunner, and feel Calvin should move on with someone else, while others think, just like with the previous couples, they should also get a second chance. → I can alternate between the two couples if that’s what you want. Just let me know.