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."

eyes blaze with fire, frustration tightening his

arm. His knuckles turn white, his jaw clenches, and I

off him

voice is

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

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

flashes before

can never be

Their love.

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

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

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will be okay,

"

I only approached you to apologize for what I

and

voice cracks as a tear slips down

bitch is good. She could pass

don't need to

she could do after using your position and all that belonged to you for

responds. His voice low and

open a

hurt this

my chest and crushed the last

pieces of

1. me.

do to soothe a

I refuse to let the tears

already thinks so little

you won't, I'll make you," he says, voice like steel. "And

it. Don't play with

me, and I can't tell if he's enjoying this.

finally lets me go.

But they're right.

one who shouldn't be

has no

I exhale and clench my fists against my

inside me, raging and wild,

poison.

there is no winning this. Not

barely above a whisper when I

pretends to hesitate, her eyes flickering between

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