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

had my first heart attack and Leah,

helped me.

We clicked

reputation wasn't that great but I didn't give a shit about that. I liked her and I

to my family, they

didn't stop me. I was

her way to be

weakness and didn't use it against

It was perfect.

I announced my intention to my family. I told

going to marry her when Nana

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

to leave

promised each other to

Granny wouldn't stop with the blind

with

Athena Dawson.

I'd

for divorcing her in three years. We kept this a secret and played

to be a simple plan. But now it

has gotten very complicated.

"My grandmother is

divorced her. You're the

and I had to make a deal with Athena so I could keep

not to break

still not enough?"

sorry.

time. I

but I can't seem

of it. And

drink, the bitterness of it lingering long after it's

not the

way

breath, and I look at her-really look at her-and for

aware of

much we've both

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

condition is not as bad as you make it

just two weeks

enough." I

at her hands. I can feel the tension building between us,

and

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want to argue with her. Not now. Not when

already so complicated.

guilt gnaws at me, and I can't

she looks at me with those hopeful eyes,

I'm breaking something

"I'm just

her voice trembling.

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