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

thoughts drift to

death, he's still inside

cruel ghost that refuses to

mourn me? Will he regret the words

Or will he celebrate-

of his life into his arms and

water?

I tried.

hard to love him, to be enough.

met first-before Leah, before

could have loved me

have

looked at me

hate-like I was

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

stealing the last

escape my lips, floating

one

isn't just a

a presence, suffocating, dragging me deeper into

fades at the

The fight leaves me.

want to

water doesn't

but right now, it's my enemy and drowning

every breath in me.

me, consuming me-until there's nothing

last thing I feel is the

And then-nothing.

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ALEX

Anger doesn't cut it.

venomous-as I storm out of the house

I heard her

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

if

driven

reeks of sweat and cheap perfume. Normally, I wouldn't go within three feet of

hell, I wouldn't even

look at it.

But tonight, I did.

I

pictures Luca sent flash in

fucking streetlights.

That fucking dress.

her-burn it to ashes along with every

a poison I can't get rid

and just

I can't give

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

chasing is getting

My phone buzzes.

at

I decline the call.

cousin is still breathing is because I know she didn't insist on keeping him around. She

the whole house wired-cameras,

paranoid. I don't give

Mercedes, I grip

or going back-dragging her out by

over my shoulder,

making me

"Fuck."

fist against the wheel, raking

Then-my phone rings again.

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I let out a

Leah.

my jaw before

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