Dear ex-Wife please be mine again

Chapter 77

Alexander POV

I gripped the steering wheel tighter than I intended, knuckles white as I sped down the empty streets. My mind was a mess, replaying everything from last night. It had been perfect.almost too perfect. Christiana had melted in my arms, her soft moans, the way she looked at me… I thought, for a moment, that we were healing, that maybe, just maybe, we could find our way back. But this morning? God, it was like waking up from a beautiful dream only to be slapped by reality.

The way she looked at me, like I was a mistake, like she regretted every touch… It made my blood boil. “What the hell, Christiana?” I muttered under my breath, jaw clenched. Last night had felt like something out of a fairytale, something I’d dreamed about for five long years. But this inorning? It was a nightmare I couldn’t escape from.

I shook my head, the memory of her cold voice stabbing me in the chest.

“Leave, Alex. Just go, she’d said, her eyes colder than I’d ever seen them. It wasn’t just the words. It was the way she threw them at me like I was nothing.

1 stayed. Cooked for her. I watched over the kids. But she didn’t care. She didn’t care.

She had treated me like I was the one who’d done something wrong.

I could still see the way her face twisted in anger, how she practically spat the words at me. I’d been patient. I’d let her get it all out, but every word felt like a blow, knocking the breath out of me. And then, when she finally pushed me away, it felt like the final nail in the coffin.

anger bubbling up inside me. I slammed my hand against the steering wheel, my heart pounding in my chest. “What the hell

burning with both anger and pain. She had every right to be angry, to feel hurt, but not like this. Not after the way she clung to me last night, like I was the

breath, How could she flip like that? It

that look before…years ago, when she had signed those divorce papers after accepting my reckless decision.

the gas pedal. Fine. If she wanted to push me away, then I’d let her. I wasn’t some fool who would beg for her attention. I’d done everything I could, stayed up with the kids, cooked

was something else tugging at me, something I didn’t want to admit. The pain. The- disappointment. I’d allowed myself to hope, to believe that maybe we could fix things. That maybe I could

to myself “No more I wasn’t going to let her tear

truth was, despite everything,

I couldn’t shake the thought that maybe it was time to give

wheel loosened, and I sighed, long and deep, staring at the road ahead but barely seeing it. Last night, everything felt right. For the first time in years, we’d connected again…really connected. But this morning?

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Chapter 77

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than I ever had before,

would never be