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

my thoughts drift

brink of death, he's still inside my

ghost that

he regret the words he said before I

Or will he celebrate-

and disappear on some perfect honeymoon while I

water?

I tried.

to love him, to be enough. But

had met first-before

have loved

it have made a

he still have looked at me

hate-like I

becomes unbearable, like fire and ice all at once. My body jerks, my mouth

in, stealing

escape my lips, floating upward-like a

one will

cold isn't just

suffocating, dragging me deeper into the

world fades at the

The fight leaves me.

want

the water doesn't

but right now,

every breath in me.

me, consuming me-until

thing I feel is

And then-nothing.

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ALEX

Anger doesn't cut it.

something darker-something venomous-as I storm out of

I heard her

my name but I couldn't bring myself to look back. My control was

thread, and if

have driven

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

hell, I wouldn't even

look at it.

But tonight, I did.

now, I wish I

Luca sent flash in my mind-burning brighter than

fucking streetlights.

That fucking dress.

wanted to rip it off her-burn it to ashes along with

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

harder and just the thought

I can't give in to

why I'm losing myself, because I can't have her and

chasing is getting

My phone buzzes.

glance at the

I decline the call.

know she didn't insist on keeping him around. She doesn't know it,

house

it paranoid. I don't

into my Mercedes,

or

her over my

for making me lose my mind like

"Fuck."

the wheel, raking a hand

Then-my phone rings again.

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time, I let out

Leah.

my

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