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

inside me and tears

I have a

hits me like a punch in

forgive me when they find out what Alex and I are keeping from them? They've been

yet I've been nothing

me and ruin my life while

thing I know, is that The

seen firsthand how it turns out when

thought of what they will do to me, makes

light had

so scared," Giana

of my own death sentence. "You took

sweetheart. What happened?"

Fall.

me

The stairs.

The pain.

push me Or did

of my

barely rises above a whisper. “I...

quickly, helping me take a few sips of water. The cool liquid

but it does

raging inside me.

Then, I feel it.

A presence.

and suffocating. My pulse stutters, my breath

And there he is.

Alex.

corner of the room, his tall frame

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

in forever, I

Worry?

Pain?.

I'm just desperate to

hard and

care about me.

when he heard

a bitter smile,

think I'd see you

you?"

if reminding himself

to play the

une concerned husband...

second

void in its place.

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