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?"

not seen it exactly but it

is trying to put two and

"You have? How?"

well Leah did use it on me." I clear my throat. Feeling confused

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 has been shanned so she had zero power to make anyone give it

that night when I had an attack that almost took my life. It was my twenty-seventh birthday when we had a party that I didn't even

parents don't even know about that night.

of how possible it was that I wasn't even admitted." I

defects? Is it a lie that it heals completely?" lan asks, his eyes focused on me as

night she told me what she

Man, what the fuck am I your bestfriend for if you can't

didn't think of it this way

understands I didn't hide it on purpose. I just didn't think it

understand

still trying to," I

brain feels like

shoved into

was

Conscious, man. I don't

know Leah well enough for her to know you had

rising

that night." Sounding

it.

her marriage? Couldn't you have given

He stands up and starts

wanted to marry her, lan. She's been

head like

didn't tell anyone about your condition, yet you passed out in the passage and Leah just... happened to be

Athena has to do with any

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

What?