Dear Ex Wife Please take me back by The Every Woman

Chapter 25

Chapter 25 ~ Because it's a fake Marriage

Chapter 25 - Because it's a fake Marriage

Athena

The door shuts and I keep my face forward, like I haven't heard him walk in.

I arrived a few hours ago with

Ryan helping me while my husband probably went to lay off some steam with the love of his life.

I tried to shower but it's been

a bitch because I'm still so sore and I almost died in there.

I imagined Ryan's face pale when he heard my scream but couldn't come in.

Alex would kill him.

My entire body is in pain but I'd rather die than show that weakness.

"How are you feeling?" His deep voice caresses my skin.

But I harden my heart and fix my face.

"Fine."

"Athena."

"I'm tired, Alex. Let me just watch TV in peace."

Silence settles

between us, heavy and suffocating. I keep my eyes glued to the screen, even though I'm not really watching. I can

feel him standing there, his

presence pressing down on me, but I refuse to look at him.

I hear him sigh, then the rustling of fabric as he moves. I expect him to leave, but

instead, he walks closer. I tense when I feel the

dip slightly

said you almost fell in the shower."

calm, but there's an

swallow hard. Ryan talks too much. Fire him and

Alex exhales through his

can sense his frustration. He doesn't like when I dismiss

no right to

me behind without a

me in a compromised position again. I understand he did it to protect Nana but couldn't he just ignore

me out of my angry thoughts and I roll my

is annoying

angry. When are my periods

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"I'm fine."

a scoff. "You can't even sit properly,

jaw tightens. "Then leave. No one

moment, there's silence again, thick with

remote, and before I

shuts off.

my head toward him, glaring.

stretching his legs out as if he owns the place. Which, technically, he does. "If you don't want to talk,

"Alex-"

He tilts his head slightly, watching me

gets under my skin. "Why are

words taste bitter

ost fell

flat as you ran out of the hospital

responds, "Too bad I don't have wings. I'd have flown if it meant

they

how to

funny about

watches me like I'm some

"You're mad," he states.

I shift slightly, but the pain makes me wince. He

myself for whatever he's about to say, but he

word, he stands and disappears into the

he returns with a bottle of painkillers and a

he orders, holding them

I don't move.

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