Dear Ex Wife Please take me back by The Every Woman

Chapter 10

Chapter 10 ~ Pump sense into him

Chapter 10- Pump sense into him

Athena

I lift my head, my eyes blazing with something between anger and devastation.

But he doesn't care.

She provoked me. That's what I want to say, but I realize it won't matter. He won't believe me. Maybe he never has.

"Say it." His voice is ice-cold, sharp, and cutting through me like a blade.

Alexander King has always been ruthless. Calculating. Cold. But this- this side of him is new even to me.

This is the look of a man who always gets what he wants, and right now, my humiliation is what will soothe his anger.

Too bad I have no interest in it. Leah may have been his first love but

she is a pretentious bitch and it's annoying how Alex turns a

blind eye.

My lips press together. I'm stubborn, always have been. The urge to fight back

burns in my veins, but his grip tightens on my

wrist, a silent reminder that fighting him won't get me anywhere.

His face tells me I won't leave this place until I apologize.

How degrading is that?

Here I am, in

my nightdress, my knees forced to stay on the cold, hard floor, while he towers over me, demanding I bow to the

woman who shattered

everything. To the woman who crawled back into his life and made him

forget all the ways, I tried to love

him.

"Apologize to her, Athena. Now."

"No."

fire,

his

off

voice

as if when she speaks a little louder he'll see behind

gently touches his jacket, and I hate how easily she can pull him back from the

scene from earlier flashes before me..reminding me of a

can never be

Their love.

okay. I understand how angry she must be... knowing you'll be divorcing her soon. Maybe

tone shifts, gentle and soothing. The contrast cuts deeper than I expected.

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be okay,

"

I only approached you to apologize for what I

was wrong and I'm truly sorry. You

I deserve it." Her voice

She could pass for a

don't need to apologize.

do after using your position and all that belonged to

voice low

heart is ripped open a thousand times

shouldn't hurt this much. It shouldn't

just reached inside my chest and crushed the last

pieces of

1. me.

there's little you can do

to let the tears

already thinks so little

won't, I'll make you," he says, voice

Don't

me, and I can't tell if he's enjoying this. If breaking me is just another thing he has to do

finally lets me go.

But they're right.

the one who

has no place in his life

and clench my

is a storm inside me, raging and wild,

poison.

no winning this. Not

is barely above a whisper when I force the words out. "I'm

to hesitate, her eyes flickering

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