Dear Ex Wife Please take me back by The Every Woman

Chapter 56 ~ Unexpected

ATHENA

I'm eleven weeks pregnant, and I still can't wrap my head around the fact that Alex accepted the baby so easily.

Well... accepted is an understatement. The man is thrilled.

In the four-plus years I've known him, Alex has always been a wall of steel, cold, distant, and unreadable. But the moment he found out about the baby, something changed.

He never misses a single appointment, insists on carrying my vitamins

everywhere, and watches me like I might break at any moment. It's almost funny. Almost.

But beneath my quiet amusement, there's guilt.

Because no matter how much I want to enjoy this, no matter how much I am enjoying it, one thought keeps gnawing at me.

Is this really happiness? Or is it just another illusion?

I can't shake the feeling that he's only here because of the baby. Without this child, he would have already left.

Left to be with her.

I know better than to fool myself. Time doesn't change everything.

I've been married to Alex for three years, and in all that time, I've never once seen his gaze soften for me the way it does for Leah. It doesn't matter that he sleeps in our home, that he shares my bed. His heart has always been with someone else.

And maybe... maybe that's something I can't live with.

A deep voice pulls me from my thoughts.

"I can see something is troubling you. Is it the food?"

I shiver slightly at the sound of Alex's voice. It's so deep and rough. I feel it grazing my skin every time he speaks, and it makes my legs weak.

Now I see why I'm pregnant. I can never resist this man.

up at him and force a small smile. "The food is fine,

he can say anything else, a throat

at us, her eyes twinkling with delight, while Giana practically

thought I'd live to see the day you two were this in love!" Ariana gushes, reaching for Eli's hand and pressing a soft kiss to

her, eyes warm. "Yes, my beautiful

watch them, my heart

This.

love that's effortless, that doesn't need

to Alex to

comes from a loving home. His parents are happy, his granny is an

a glass of wine. Don't you,

through the moment as he pushes a

me.

shifts

expression darkens, his entire

that shit off my wife's face,

as he pushes my chair close to

two simple words send my heart into a

My wife.

ridiculous how much power they hold over me. How much I want them to

the first time he's offered me wine during dinner, but it's the first time

His mother begins,

head, placing my handzon top of his, which is another shock because instead of pushing his

mum. Athena and

thick it feels like the entire room is holding

grandmother stares

if

lets out a sharp

to her chest as she stands instantly rushing to

But me?

I can't breathe.

fingers are still resting on top of Alex's