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,

say anything else, a throat clears from across the

eyes twinkling with delight, while Giana practically vibrates with

to see the day you two were this in love!" Ariana gushes, reaching for Eli's

at her, eyes warm. "Yes,

watch them,

This.

love, the kind of love that's effortless,

wonder... what happened to Alex to make him the way

happy, his granny

just needs a glass of wine.

teasing voice cuts through the moment as he

me.

shifts in

expression darkens, his entire body

off my wife's

voice is a low growl as he pushes my

two simple words send my

My wife.

they hold over me. How

wine during dinner, but

mother begins, but

his, which is another shock

mum. Athena and I are

that follows Alex's words is thick so thick it feels like the entire room is

grandmother stares at

as if

out a

as she stands instantly rushing to

But me?

I can't breathe.

of Alex's