Dear Ex Wife Please take me back by The Every Woman

Chapter 32

Chapter 32~ Dead or alive

ALEX

The world stops.

The music fades. The flashing lights blur into nothing. Mira's words echo in my

skull like a gunshot.

She drowned, Alex.

No.

No, she didn't.

How could she?

Did she throw herself in the pool when I left?

Was it because she was so drunk that she fell? Or did she do it to spite me?

Honestly, my mind is spinning so much that I can't think straight.

To make it worse, a memory from earlier hits me like a wave,

The stretcher from earlier,

The flash of a white sheet stained with water, clinging to a limp figure.

I move without thinking, shoving past bodies, my pulse hammering so hard it's all I can hear.

Athena.

I don't even remember reaching the paramedics, but suddenly I'm there -

grabbing the arm of a man in uniform, my voice a raw snarl.

"Is she alive?"

"Sir, please stand back-"

"IS SHE ALIVE?"

other paramedic's eyes shift toward the

panic strangling me. "No. Open the

"Sir-"

hear the

it open - and then I realize she is not here. Damn

at the hospital I

I snarl again,

the paramedics, an older man with a steady gaze, finally answers. "We don't know," he says, his voice firm but not unkind. "She

A miracle.

deeper than

to open her

Not this. Never this.

and I see it - the flicker of recognition in his eyes. Of course, he

Everyone does.

you know her, Sir?" he asks, his question annoying me even though the

is respectful.

I don't answer.

I don't blink.

stare at him—cold, hard, daring

He doesn't.

back toward my car, he speaks again. "Sir... we

moment, I

reflect off the wet

the road, a brutal

might already be

No.

I can't.

I say through

nods like he expected that, and I'm already moving - sliding

I step

Wasn't he

Something was off and I

sound from another car snaps me back

through the night. A ride that should take forty five minutes

grip on the wheel

don't know what I'll

know if Athena's still

I know one thing if

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