Dear Ex Wife Please take me back by The Every Woman

Chapter 61

Chapter 61 ~ Do you understand?

ATHENA

A thick, suffocating darkness surrounds me.

Cold. Wet. Heavy.

I can't breathe.

Water clings to my skin, soaking through my clothes, and weighing me down. My legs kick, my arms thrash, but there's no solid ground beneath me. Only the endless, inky abyss swallowing me whole.

I try to scream, but the moment I open my mouth, water rushes in. It burns. It fills my lungs, dragging me deeper, deeper until all I can hear is the muffled roar of my heartbeat and the distant echoes of my own cries.

Then suddenly,

A hand.

It grips my shoulder, fingers digging in painfully. Not to save me. Not to pull me up. To push me further down.

“No,” I choke, bubbles escaping my lips. I claw at the hand, at the unseen force keeping me trapped in this nightmare, but it's too strong.

The water is cold, but my chest burns, and my body convulses, desperate for air.

I see shadows above me. A towering figure watching. Laughing.

And then I'm falling...

Not through water, but through darkness.

An endless void.

Wind rushes past me, howling in my ears, but the ground never comes. I fall and fall and fall....

Until a sharp jolt rips through me.

I wake up gasping, my body drenched in sweat, my fingers clawing at the sheets like they're the only thing keeping me tethered to reality.

My throat aches, and my breaths come in ragged, uneven gulps. The weight in my chest is still there, pressing down like I never truly escaped.

The room is dark, but a dim glow filters through the curtains.

I'm not in the water. I'm not falling.

I'm in Sloane's apartment.

door bursts open and an

is still racing, my body still trembling from the nightmare, but now there's another storm standing before me and this one comes in six feet two form with

is Sloane?" he asks, scanning

hoarse from my nightmare. "I don't know.

you alone with

my babysitter, Alex. Stop making her

my tone, my expression. "You look upset," he says, stepping

not," I lie, gripping

tightens. He doesn't believe

"Did something happen?"

takes another step forward, but I hold up a

"Stay away from me."

ticks, his entire body going rigid. He hates being told

that's too damn

words I'd like to use and I doubt he'll like any of them. His

you at least text before you fell asleep? So I didn't

I can stop it. I let

Men and their audacity.

to

frown deepens, a muscle in his

I mutter, looking

wrong thing

shifts, turning deadly. "Don't do that, Athena." His

I hate how

an asshole but he has a voice that can do things to you

hell

met Leah." I begin, ignoring the look he gives

"She has a baby bump. She

shocked nor does he give away any type of emotion. His face is a hard mask I want

"Get to the point."

I thought you'd want to know how she's doing." I cower and say instead of saying what I really

a baby with her. That I'm not so special after all. That you'll probably be a father of two

I saw her a few minutes ago." He says

Is all I can manage

is going abroad for

He explains and honestly the more he

But wait....

Leah is going abroad?

some reason, that throws me off

dropped her off?" My voice is flat, but the emotions

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