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.

a small smile. "The food is

anything else, a throat

with

reaching for Eli's hand and pressing a soft kiss to his knuckles.

eyes warm. "Yes, my beautiful flower. I

watch them, my heart

This.

the kind of love that's effortless, that doesn't need

to Alex

a loving home. His parents are happy, his granny

glass of wine. Don't you,

through the moment as he pushes a wine glass

me.

shifts in

expression darkens, his entire

off

growl as

just like that, two simple words send my heart into a

My wife.

much power they hold over me.

during dinner, but it's the first time Alex has reacted

His mother begins,

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

drink, mum. Athena and I are

silence that follows Alex's words is thick so thick it

stares at

as if she

out a

she stands instantly rushing to my

But me?

I can't breathe.

still resting on top of Alex's hand, his