Ex-Husband’s Regret by Evelyn M.M

28. Lucky woman

Anonymous POV.

I am pissed off. That is an understatement. I am beyond pissed off, I was downright furious. Once

again she managed to escape me. Once again she survived when she was supposed to be dead.

“Tell me how the hell she’s still alive?” I ask Ben.

“I swear I almost had her this time, I was this close to ending her but her bastard bodyguard

arrived and saved her” he muttered.

Did the guy think that I was stupid? That I didn’t know what the hell happened. I have gotten

nothing but excuses from him since this whole operation started. Three times he failed to deliver her dead body. The only thing that was positive about this, is that I haven’t paid him yet. Imagine

if I had paid him and yet he hasn’t delivered.

He was going to get half a million dollars if he got the job done. That money should have

motivated him enough to do his job and finish it within the time limit we agreed.

I take a swig of my whisky. Frustration clawing at me.

“Really? You almost had her, is that the reason why you are bleeding?” I clipped feeling angrier

every minute I talked to the idiot.

“I promise I’ll get her next time. She won’t escape me again” he speaks, his eyes cast to the floor.

“She’s already escaped you thrice!” I boomed, feeling the need to end is pathetic life.

He doesn’t speak. Instead he continues staring at the ground like it was interesting.

He had set me back big time. This job was supposed to be done months ago and yet here we still

are, with Ava alive and breathing.

good at his job. That he would be able to deliver.

him except for empty

you’re unable to kill one fucking woman? How

How lucky can one be to escape death thrice? The third time is supposed to be the

+15 BONUS

“Killing someone has never been this hard,

easy. She was in my way. The only thing that was standing between me and what

get what I wanted I

first I wanted to make it look an accident. The last thing I needed was to have cops on my back after I went through all that trouble to get her out of my way. An opportunity to cover my tracks presented itself in the form of

they had discovered that it was all a

I didn’t go through

end.

glass and

out of time. Right now I was supposed

living the life, but instead I was not anywhere close to my goals. In fact it

away from

one last

sneer, “So you can fail again?

that death doesn’t seem to want

by the looks of things it seems there is someone above

three attempts on their life unless there is divine

I’ve ever met. Her luck was starting to get on my nerves. I’ve

always get what I want, but

do better” he scoffs,

anger reaches

I throw it in his direction. He doesn’t get a chance to duck. The

straight on

when I see blood trickle down his eye.

repeat

+15 BONUS

Looking at me with

least he knows how to keep

be a way to take her out

more to myself.

fact that I needed her dead

trouble and I was afraid that the more I tried killing her and she survived,

caught. That can’t happen, because it means losing everything I’ve

has already proved that she isn’t easy to kill. If

protection from her