Dear Ex Wife Please take me back by The Every Woman

Chapter 84

Chapter 84 ~ A cruel Joke

ATHENA

My breath halts. My spine locks.

Because the hand holding my waist in a firm, grounding grip belongs to him.

My sworn enemy!

His touch scorches right through the fabric of my coat despite the glacial look on his face.

Up close, he's even more infuriatingly gorgeous. His blonde hair is slicked back like a halo of arrogance, sharp cheekbones set in stone, and those green eyes, God, those eyes narrow with a cold disapproval.

He looks older and harder. But even more good-looking! It's more like the devil with an angel's face.

I jerk away from his grip like it burns. "I'm fine," I say through clenched teeth, already bracing myself for the venom.

"Clearly," he mutters, brushing invisible dust off his sleeve like I've contaminated him.

lann turns, and he frowns upon seeing Alex.

I guess I'm not the only shocked one.

"Quinn." Alex acknowledges.

"Am I supposed to get offended that my best friend showed up without giving me

a heads up?" lan pouts, and Alex rolls his eyes.

I step away as far away from him as possible.

"I thought you were on call, and this hospital is the last place I expected to see you." He responds, his eyes focused on me.

The way he looks at me only makes me angry.

I turn to face lan, "I'll wait for you outside."

I don't wait for permission. I just turn and walk, no, storm down the hall, ignoring

way my heart is

burning fighting

I can feel his gaze burning in my

look back and throw two

the hell is he doing

to be a

clearly, every demon from my past keeps haunting

Who cursed me?

place. It grips my heart so hard breathing becomes

and I pause, exhaling hard as I

Athena. You're not

almost jump out of my skin. But I hold

me.

don't turn around. "Still following

to mask the sarcasm in

off the wall. "Could have fooled

expression doesn't change. That annoyingly blank mask he

flickers in his

Just for a second.

Something broken.

that, this is Alex we are talking about,

him, I press the

and I can feel his gaze burning into my skin. He's so close behind me that I can smell

fail me, so I keep standing and facing the front, counting down the

Stupid sixteen floor!

thick with tension, suffocating. His presence looms behind me like a storm

body is wound tight, but I

elevator dings again, but the doors refuse

the

really hard to face me." Alex's voice

I ignore him.

I think I've gotten him to shut up, his voice slithers in again, like venom. "You know, running away never

my lip, refusing to react. My fingers are shaking as I press the

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