Dear Ex Wife Please take me back by The Every Woman

Chapter 82

Chapter 82 ~ Starting today!

ATHENA

My heart stutters. That voice.

Even if the years had dulled it, even if time had blurred every echo of that night, I'd still recognize it anywhere.

Leah.

The last time I saw her, she was standing in the doorway of my apartment with Alex's child in her arms.

Rubbing it in my face that she had what I could never give him even if I tried.

I looked at the child for the first time, and my heart shattered. He was the spitting image of Alex with his eyes.

I shut the door in her face and applied to work in the furthest hospital I could find.

And now, she's here.

Why is she here?

Dressed in a tailored navy-blue suit with a white coat, her hair pulled back in a bun that does nothing to soften the features on her face.

in identical white coats, all standing like soldiers in formation behind their

same smug expression I remember curls on her lips as she

over me like I'm a specimen she expected to find in the trash

gaze, refusing to let my face betray the chaos ripping through my chest. What

be climbing the ranks at that prestigious city hospital; the one Alex was

chance to reach because I was too busy trying

my mother

this blonde is standing in front of me, tells me I'll have to change the planet if

finally

hand for a ring but see nothing. But then again, most surgeons

spirals, and I force

This isn't the time.

This isn't the place.

Leah, of course, doesn't care about either of those

interesting case in your ER," she says, voice dripping with sarcasm.

She tilts her head.

All after an hour on shift. I'm afraid," her smile widens into a cruel grin,

My stomach tightens.

from fear but from the anger

a life," I reply evenly. "If that's out of line, then maybe the line needs

of the doctors behind her exchange surprised glances,

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