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?

always so poised, it's so strange seeing her shaken with an expression filled

inside me and

I have a family that

guilt hits me like a punch in the

when they find out what Alex and I are keeping from them? They've been nothing but

nothing but a

will probably hate me and ruin my life while at

one thing I know,

and never forget. I've seen firsthand how it

thought of what they will do to me, makes me

had

scared," Giana

snapping me out of my own death sentence.

sweetheart. What happened?"

Fall.

crash into me like a tidal

The stairs.

The pain.

someone push me

the dryness of my throat.

barely rises above a whisper. “I...

a few sips of water. The cool liquid soothes

but it does

raging inside me.

Then, I feel it.

A presence.

in the air, heavy and suffocating. My pulse stutters, my breath

And there he is.

Alex.

stands in the corner of the room,

His jaw is tight, his expression

time in forever, I see something in

Worry?

Pain?.

I'm just desperate to believe

too hard and I'm

about me. He probably

heard I

a bitter smile, my voice hoarse as

think I'd see

you?"

if reminding himself

play

une concerned husband...

hope that had ignited for a split second

void in its place.

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