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

and Leah, who was

helped me.

We clicked

but I didn't give a shit

to my family, they weren't very thrilled,

me. I

on her way to be a

and didn't use it against

It was perfect.

announced my intention to my family.

to marry her when Nana

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

had to leave

to reunite in

wouldn't stop with the blind

with their

Athena Dawson.

I'd

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

be a simple plan. But now it looks

has gotten very complicated.

is still

divorced her. You're the

make a deal with Athena so I could keep

so as not

still not enough?"

I'm sorry. I

I'll wait for the right time.

that word so many times but I can't seem to soak in it. I can't give her

it. And

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

not the

way

and I look at her-really look at her-and

while, I'm aware of how much

much we've

gone to give her the

Leah. My condition is not as bad as

two weeks

I cut her

pressing together as she looks down at her hands. I can

and

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I don't want to argue with her.

already so complicated.

can't help but feel like I'm drowning in

at me with

I'm breaking something inside

"I'm just

voice trembling. She reaches

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