Dear Ex Wife Please take me back by The Every Woman

Chapter 99 ~ Suspicious

ALEX

"There is something I need to tell you." lann grabs a cigarette and throws himself on my couch.

“I don't think doctors are supposed to be smoking.” I sarcastically comment.

"Yeah, well, I don't think engaged men are supposed to fall in love with their ex- wives either, yet here we are" he counters, his voice low and bitter as he sticks the cigarette between his lips.

My hand stills mid-pour.

The glass clinks against the bottle.

I glance back at him slowly. "What the hell are you talking about?"

lann doesn't look at me. He strikes a match and lights the cigarette with a stupid smirk.

"I'm here for serious business, and I know you care about Athena, so I thought I could ask you before I proceed."

"I don't care about her." I snarl as I sit across from him.

I think I need a break from work. I'm so exhausted.

"Hmmm yeah. Anyway, so I heard you stopped by during the little get-together we had."

"To pick up my son." I emphasize.

His brows shoot to his hairline as he eyes me while his Asian eyes shut from laughing.

Like anything is funny.

"Yes. To pick up your son. So, that gathering was for a drug formula my family has been searching for for around ten years. The files on who was in charge of it were sealed shut, and even after using all the money and resources, I used to come up empty untill now." excitement is evident in his voice as he speaks. "The drug is rumored to be so powerful it heals heart problems with just one shot, man."

I freeze.

But lan doesn't seem to notice because he continues, "I was starting to think dad is making me chase a ghost, you know. I've never even seen the shot, and all I have are rumors with zero witnesses." He laughs. "Fuck, I even thought that maybe I should shut the whole institution alto-"

"I've seen it before." I cut him off.

"What?"

it exactly

is trying to put two and two

"You have? How?"

well Leah did use it on me."

when you said she saved you that was the shot she used? But wasn't that five years ago? Where did she get the shot because if I'm correct she hadn't made it to resident yet. And her family

my life. It was my twenty-seventh birthday when we had a party that I didn't even want. I don't remember well what triggered it, but Leah gave me a shot

even know about that night. Only Luca

possible it was

completely?" lan asks,

what she gave me wasn't

your

didn't think of it this way till you

me he understands I didn't hide

understand what this

trying to,"

temple. My brain

shoved into a

was

don't

know Leah well enough for her to know you had a

suspicion rising in

didn't know her till that night." Sounding even more stupid now that I

it.

marriage? Couldn't

stands up

to marry her, lan. She's been through a

his head like

you passed out in the passage and Leah just... happened to

Athena has to do with any

I clench my jaw.

"No."

"Her parents made it That's why I want her to lead the program.

What?