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, frustration tightening his grip

turn white, his jaw clenches, and I

off

voice is

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

from earlier flashes before me..reminding

can never be

Their love.

be... knowing you'll be divorcing her soon. Maybe I shouldn't have come

soothing. The contrast cuts deeper than I expected. "It's not your fault. You did nothing

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will be okay, just

"

approached you to

It was wrong and I'm truly sorry.

it." Her voice cracks as a tear slips down

is good. She could pass for a very

don't need

using your position

His voice low and

heart is ripped open a thousand

this much. It

just reached inside my chest

pieces of

1. me.

you can do to soothe a

but I refuse to let the tears fall. Not in front of them. Not

so

you," he says, voice like

it. Don't play with

to 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.

one who

no place in his

I exhale and clench my fists against

storm inside me, raging and wild, but I swallow it down

poison.

no winning this. Not

whisper when I force the

her eyes flickering between me

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