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?

blend with the

thoughts drift to

brink of death, he's still inside

ghost

Will he regret the words

Or will he celebrate-

and disappear on some perfect honeymoon

water?

I tried.

tried so hard to love him, to be

met

could have

have made

looked at me

with hate-like I was

all at once. My body jerks, my mouth opens

stealing the

bubbles escape my lips, floating upward-like a

no one will

cold isn't just

dragging me

fades at

The fight leaves me.

don't want to

the water

is life, but right now, it's

every breath in me.

consuming

thing I feel is the

And then-nothing.

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ALEX

Anger doesn't cut it.

something darker-something venomous-as I storm out of the

I heard her

I couldn't bring myself

thread, and if I

have driven me

and cheap perfume. Normally, I wouldn't go within three

hell, I wouldn't even

look at it.

But tonight, I did.

I wish

pictures Luca sent flash in my mind-burning brighter

fucking streetlights.

That fucking dress.

tight, barely there. I wanted to rip it off her-burn it to ashes along with every other thing in

my skin. It's a poison I can't get rid of, a

heart pounds harder and just the thought of her

can't give

because I can't have

is getting

My phone buzzes.

at

I decline the call.

breathing is because I know she didn't insist on

house

I don't

into my Mercedes, I grip

between driving off or going

over

until it's red for making

"Fuck."

against the wheel, raking a hand

Then-my phone rings again.

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let out a

Leah.

clench my jaw

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