Dear Ex Wife Please take me back by The Every Woman

Chapter 24

Chapter 24 ~ For as long as it takes

Chapter 24 - For as long as it takes

Alex

"You're not paying attention to me."

Leah's voice cuts through the silence.

I don't respond. Just swirl the amber

liquid in my glass, watching the way the light catches it.

"You're distracted," she presses. "Is everything okay?"

I take a slow breath. Exhale.

"Fine."

One word. That's all she gets.

She sighs and picks up a second

glass, pouring a drink before handing it to me. I don't move to take it.

Because she touched it.

The thought sends an uncomfortable itch crawling up my spine. My fingers twitch, resisting the urge to shove it away.

She notices my hesitation, her lips parting slightly before she sets the glass down on the

table instead. I don't miss the flicker of pain concealed in her eyes.

I reach for the bottle and pour myself a new drink.

One untouched.

One clean.

Leah crosses her arms. "Still the same, huh?"

I don't answer.

She sighs, her shoulders slumping as she sits next to me and

tries to hook her arm into mine but thinks twice about it.

Smart choice.

"I'm glad I got to start over, Alex. It used to hurt when they called me the daughter of a homewrecker. Now I'm a good doctor and

that has seemed to erase some of the hatred from people's hearts."

Her voice wobbles, eyes filling with tears as she looks at me. "But

I can see you struggling, is it because of my family that you don't want to marry me?."

Three

attack and Leah, who was just graduating from med

helped me.

We clicked

and spent more time together. Honestly, her family's reputation wasn't that great but I didn't give a shit about that. I liked her and I wasn't going to

my family, they weren't very thrilled,

didn't stop me. I was going

on her way to be a talented

and didn't use it against

It was perfect.

my intention to my family. I

marry her when Nana had a heart attack.

to break up with Leah temporarily so she could be nursed back to health. But while I was

they had to

to

wouldn't stop with the blind dates

deal with their favourite

Athena Dawson.

I'd

years. We kept this a secret and

a simple plan. But

has gotten very complicated.

at her. "My grandmother is still

her. You're the one who left

and I had to make a deal with Athena

as my wife, so as not to break

still not enough?"

I'm sorry. I just

right time. I love you

but I can't seem to soak in it. I can't give her what

dreams of it. And maybe I

bitterness of it lingering

not the

way

a shaky breath, and I look at her-really look at her-and for the first

while, I'm aware

much we've

but wonder if it's too late for us. If she even sees it the way I do. If I'm too far gone to give her the life she dreams of. "How's your heart? You haven't had it checked in

My condition is not as bad as you

just two weeks

enough." I cut

at her

and

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I don't want to argue with her. Not now.

already so complicated.

at me, and I can't help but feel like I'm drowning in it.

looks at me

I'm breaking something inside

"I'm just

her voice trembling. She reaches out again,

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