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

him except for empty

you’re unable to kill one fucking woman? How hard could

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

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face. “Killing someone has never been this hard, I usually get the job done on the

easy. She was in my way. The only thing that was standing between me and what I wanted. I had hatched this plan the moment I

I wanted I needed her gone.

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

that it was all a ploy. That the Reapers‘

and then me. I didn’t go through all this trouble just to

end.

glass and smashing it

time. Right now I was supposed to be enjoying

I was not anywhere close to my

away

last chance” he

“So you can fail again?

about the Ava that death doesn’t seem to want to claim

seems there is someone above

survive three attempts on their life unless there

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

get what I want, but Ava’s death is proving to be

you do better” he

reaches its limit. Grabbing whatever I could get

He doesn’t get a chance to duck. The bottle of whiskey

on his

trickle down his eye. His pain eases my anger just

repeat what

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his teeth. Looking at me with unconcealed

how

out quickly.

more to myself.

her dead for my plan to

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

because it

she has already proved that she isn’t easy to kill. If we add the fact

protection from her billionaire husband, then it makes