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.

and force a small smile. "The food is fine, thank

a throat clears from

eyes twinkling with

were this in love!" Ariana gushes, reaching for Eli's hand and pressing a soft kiss to his knuckles. "I

warm. "Yes, my

watch them, my

This.

love that's

to Alex to make

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

just needs a glass of wine. Don't

cuts through the moment

me.

air shifts in an

darkens, his entire body stiffening

off my wife's

growl as he pushes my chair close to

simple words send my heart

My wife.

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

me wine during dinner,

His mother begins,

his, which is another shock

can't drink, mum. Athena

is thick so thick it

grandmother stares

if

out a sharp

flying to her chest as she stands instantly rushing

But me?

I can't breathe.

top of Alex's hand, his grip firm, grounding