Dear Ex Wife Please take me back by The Every Woman

Chapter 30

Chapter 30 ~ Sinking

Chapter 30 - Sinking

ATHENA

I've read so many articles about drowning, but no one has ever given it justice.

No one ever explained what it really feels like.

They wrote about the silence, the stillness-but not the agony.

No one

warned us how the cold water would punch the air from your lungs the second you hit the surface.

The first thought that comes to my mind is that i can't swim.

I open my mouth to scream, but all I taste is water.

Panic explodes in my chest. I thrash wildly-arms flailing, legs kicking-

but the dress clings to my skin like a vice, dragging me

down. My hair fans out around me, floating like a dark halo as I sink deeper.

The muffled sounds of the party above me fade. With how loud the music is, no one will find me.

If only Alex would change his mind and look back, turn to look for me. Maybe I'll get a chance to live.

But every second that passes is a cruel reminder.

He's with Leah.

He won't notice.

No one will see me.

My lungs burn, a searing pain

growing with every second. The need to breathe becomes unbearable-

an animalistic instinct

overriding everything-until my body convulses, demanding air.

But there is none.

My ribs contract painfully, as if

trying to wring out the water filling my lungs. It hurts-God, it hurts more than I thought

possible.

I fight.

I claw at nothing, kicking harder-harder-

until my limbs grow heavy, sluggish. The pool lights blur, growing

dim as the weight

of my body pulls me down.

This is the second time I've fallen this month.

Was it the alcohol? Did I slip?

Or... was I pushed?

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Not that it matters now.

I think of my parents.

Would they be proud of me? Will they be sad when I

meet them again and tell them that I drowned alone in a pool and couldn't

become a surgeon?

with the

my thoughts

death, he's still inside my head-inside

ghost

Will he regret the words he said before I

Or will he celebrate-

of his life into his arms and disappear on some perfect honeymoon

water?

I tried.

love him, to be enough.

met first-before

have loved

have

at me the way he

hate-like

like fire and ice all at once. My body jerks, my mouth opens in a desperate

water, flooding in, stealing the last bit of life

bubbles escape my lips, floating upward-like

no one will

just a

a presence, suffocating, dragging me deeper into

fades at the

The fight leaves me.

want

water

but right now,

every breath in me.

claims me-filling me, consuming me-until there's nothing

thing I feel is

And then-nothing.

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ALEX

Anger doesn't cut it.

venomous-as I storm

I heard her

bring myself to look back. My control was hanging

if I didn't

would have driven me to

sweat and cheap perfume. Normally, I

hell, I wouldn't even

look at it.

But tonight, I did.

I

pictures Luca sent flash in

fucking streetlights.

That fucking dress.

I wanted to rip it off her-burn it to

can't get rid of, a constant itch I

just the

give in

that's why I'm losing myself, because

of chasing is getting

My phone buzzes.

at

I decline the call.

because I know she didn't insist on keeping him

whole house

it paranoid. I don't

into my Mercedes,

wheel, torn between driving off or

throwing her over

it's red for making me

"Fuck."

wheel,

Then-my phone rings again.

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time, I let out a frustrated

Leah.

my

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