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?"

exactly but it has been used on

to put two and

"You have? How?"

it on me." I clear my throat. Feeling confused

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

was my twenty-seventh birthday when we had a party that I didn't even

my parents don't even know about that night. Only Luca

was that I wasn't even admitted." I mumble

defects? Is it a lie that it heals completely?" lan asks, his eyes focused on me as he tries to analyze all the

night she told me what she gave me

night? Man, what the fuck am I your

think of it this way till you

didn't hide it

even understand what

trying to," I

temple. My brain feels like

into a blender.

was

don't know

enough for her to know

asks, suspicion rising in his

till that night." Sounding even more stupid now that I think

it.

promised her marriage? Couldn't you

He stands up and

lan. She's

head like I'm being

yet you passed out in the passage

Athena has to do with

I clench my jaw.

"No."

the window, staring out into the city. "Her parents made it That's why I want her to lead the program. I was going to ask you if you knew that but

What?