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?

so strange seeing her shaken with an expression filled

inside me and

have a family that

hits me like a punch in the

me when they find out what Alex and

yet I've been nothing but

hate me and

I know, is

forgive and never forget. I've seen firsthand how

will do to me, makes me

light had

were so scared," Giana Mumurs,

me out of my own

sweetheart. What happened?"

Fall.

memories crash into me like a

The stairs.

The pain.

someone push me Or did I

of my throat.

barely rises above a whisper.

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

it does nothing for the

raging inside me.

Then, I feel it.

A presence.

and suffocating. My pulse stutters, my breath catching as my gaze drifts past

And there he is.

Alex.

the room, his tall frame stiff,

his expression unreadable. But it's his eyes that

the first time in forever, I

Worry?

Pain?.

maybe I'm just desperate to

hard and I'm now imagining stupid

care about me. He

heard I was in

lips twitch into a bitter smile, my voice

I'd see

you?"

as if reminding himself that they're here. That

play the role

une concerned husband...

for a split second flickers

void in its place.

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