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 tears prick

I have a family

like

when they find out what Alex and

yet I've been nothing

probably hate me and ruin my life

I know, is that The

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

what they will do to

had just taken

so scared,"

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

sweetheart. What happened?"

Fall.

me

The stairs.

The pain.

me Or

dryness of my throat.

barely rises above a whisper.

quickly, helping me take a few

but it does nothing for

raging inside me.

Then, I feel it.

A presence.

the air, heavy and suffocating. My pulse stutters, my breath catching as my gaze drifts

And there he is.

Alex.

corner of the room, his tall frame

tight, his expression unreadable. But it's his eyes that

first time in forever, I

Worry?

Pain?.

I'm just desperate to

fell too hard and I'm now imagining

care about me. He

when he heard I was

twitch into a bitter smile,

I'd

you?"

if reminding himself that they're

play the role

une concerned husband...

hope that had ignited for a split second

void in its place.

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