Dear Ex Wife Please take me back by The Every Woman

Chapter 20

Chapter 20 ~ A touch that hurts

Chapter 20 A touch that hurts

Athena

Pain.

It's the first thing I feel, a deep, searing ache that spreads through my entire body like wildfire. My limbs feel like dead weight,

my head is pounding, and my throat is raw as if I had

swallowed shards of glass. My lashes flutter open, and the bright, lights of

the hospital sting my vision. The beeping of a monitor echoes in my ears.

Am I dead?

Moving my neck tells me the answer because the pain I feel is excruciating.

I inhale slowly, but even that hurts.

"Athena?"

The voice

is soft, but also sounding panicked. I'm pretty sure my family doesn't give a shit about me so that can't be them.

Hell, they wouldn't cross the road just to check on how I'm doing.

So who is it?

My brain is mushy and there is an annoying ring in my ears as I

turn my head slightly-every movement like dragging through

molasses-and my gaze lands on Giana.

Her usually composed face is streaked with worry, her wrinkled hands trembling as they reach for me, smoothing my hair away from my damp forehead.

"Oh, my darling girl," she whispers, her voice a gentle whisper "You scared us.'

>>

Us.

I blink sluggishly, my eyes shifting past Giana, only to meet

Ariana's soft eyes watching me with tears in her eyes.

Was she crying?

For me?

seeing her shaken with an expression filled with concern

and

like I have a

then guilt hits me like a punch in

they find out what Alex and I are

nothing but a liar

and ruin my

thing I know, is

forgive and never forget. I've seen firsthand how it turns out

thought of what they will do to me, makes me wish

had just

scared," Giana Mumurs, squeezing

me out of my own death sentence. "You took a terrible

sweetheart. What happened?"

Fall.

into me like

The stairs.

The pain.

someone push me Or did

dryness of my throat. My lips

rises above a

take a few sips of water. The cool

does

raging inside me.

Then, I feel it.

A presence.

and suffocating. My pulse stutters, my

And there he is.

Alex.

corner of the room,

jaw is tight, his expression unreadable. But it's

in forever,

Worry?

Pain?.

just desperate to

I fell too hard and I'm now

doesn't care about me. He

party when he heard

lips twitch into a bitter smile,

I'd see

you?"

reminding himself that they're

play the role

une concerned husband...

a split second flickers and dies,

void in its place.

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