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?

1/5

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

then- my thoughts drift

death, he's still inside my head-inside

cruel ghost that refuses

he regret the

Or will he celebrate-

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

water?

I tried.

I tried so hard to love him,

met first-before Leah, before

have loved me

it have made

would he still have looked at me the way

with hate-like

at once. My body jerks, my mouth opens in a

no air-only water, flooding in, stealing the last bit of

lips, floating

no one

isn't just

suffocating, dragging me

fades at the

The fight leaves me.

don't want

water

is life, but right now, it's my enemy and

every breath in me.

me-filling me, consuming

I feel is the

And then-nothing.

2/5

ALEX

Anger doesn't cut it.

venomous-as I storm out

I heard her

my name but I couldn't bring myself

thread, and if I didn't

driven me

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

hell, I wouldn't even

look at it.

But tonight, I did.

now, I wish

sent flash in

fucking streetlights.

That fucking dress.

off her-burn it to ashes along with every other thing in her

It's a poison I can't

harder and just the

give

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

of chasing is

My phone buzzes.

at the

I decline the call.

she didn't insist on keeping

the whole house

it paranoid. I don't give a

my Mercedes, I grip

or

throwing her over

red for making me

"Fuck."

fist against the wheel, raking a hand through

Then-my phone rings again.

3/5

time, I let

Leah.

my jaw before

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