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

first heart attack and Leah, who

helped me.

We clicked

but I didn't give a shit about that. I liked her

to my

stop me. I was

was beautiful, on her way to

weakness and didn't use

It was perfect.

intention to my

going to marry her when Nana had

be nursed back to health. But while I was at it, Leah's family business

had to leave the

promised each other to reunite in three

Granny wouldn't stop with the blind

deal with

Athena Dawson.

I'd

in three years. We kept this a secret and

supposed to be a simple

has gotten very complicated.

at her. "My grandmother is still sick, Leah. You know that's

her. You're the one

to make a deal with Athena so

as not to break my

still not enough?"

right. I'm sorry.

for the right time. I love you

times but I can't seem to soak in it. I can't

dreams of it. And maybe

quiet, sipping my drink, the bitterness

not the

way

takes a shaky breath, and I look at her-really

I'm aware of how much

how much we've both

to give her the life she dreams

fine Leah. My condition is not as bad as

just two weeks

enough." I cut her

flinches, her lips pressing together as she looks down at her hands. I can feel the tension building between

and

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I don't want to argue with her.

already so complicated.

at me, and I can't help

at me with those hopeful

I'm breaking

"I'm just

her voice trembling.

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