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 prick my

like I have a

hits me like

me when they find out what Alex and I are

I've been nothing

me and ruin my life while at

one thing I know,

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

will do to me, makes

light had just taken

so scared,"

me out of my own death sentence. "You took

sweetheart. What happened?"

Fall.

memories crash into me

The stairs.

The pain.

push me

of

above a whisper.

few sips

does nothing for

raging inside me.

Then, I feel it.

A presence.

air, heavy and suffocating. My pulse stutters, my

And there he is.

Alex.

of the

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

tighten. Because for the first time in forever,

Worry?

Pain?.

I'm just desperate to

I fell too hard and I'm now imagining

doesn't care about me. He

when he heard I was in

lips twitch into a bitter smile, my voice hoarse as I

I'd see you

you?"

reminding himself that they're here. That

play the role

une concerned husband...

second flickers and dies, leaving nothing but an

void in its place.

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