Dear Ex Wife Please take me back by The Every Woman

Chapter 108 ~ What happened?

ALEX

"You look like shit."

Luca leans back in his chair, brown eyes sweeping over me like he's confirming a diagnosis.

"Shit doesn't cover it," lann chimes in, and I throw him a glare that lacks the heat it usually carries.

They're both right.

I do look like hell.

"Should I pour you a drink?" Luca offers, but I shake my head.

"Rayen's birthday party starts in an hour. I'm not showing up stinking of whiskey."

Luca whistles. "Look at you being responsible."

I rub at my temples, head throbbing from more than just the sleepless nights.

"I just... I don't get it."

That makes them both pause. I never start conversations like this. I usually keep things buried, neat, and tucked somewhere no one can find them, but something's been cracking lately.

"Get what?" Luca edges me on.

"Athena." Her name feels like gravel in my throat.

"She's been... amazing with Rayen. Like really good to him. He's already sent me

a picture of the gift she just took to him, some Lego game, and he swears it's the best thing he's ever gotten."

I let out a dry laugh.

"I bought him four actual cars. But sure, let's all worship the plastic blocks."

lann raises a brow, clearly confused,

because she's good to your

lean forward, elbows

why she's so good to Rayen when she-" My voice breaks, "When she got

of those goddamn photos, "She didn't want

sounds foreign in my own ears, hoarse and bitter, like something scraped up from the bottom

should see her with Noah or

and laughs at almost everything. I've seen my cousin grow. He couldn't make a

where the hell is Zayan in all of this? Wasn't he the reason? The man she gave up everything for? Why isn't she with him?

The question haunts me.

she with him but

up

if she's not with him, then what the hell was

the thought. Because if she did it for nothing, if she's not with him, if they're not building some kind of perfect life together, then she really

I mutter, raking my fingers through my

quiet for a moment before

not losing it. You're in love with

lost

"You've lost your brains?."

and I let

kid, you fuckers. Loving her

if she didn't

of doing such thing. She's feisty with a nasty temper but she is also warm at heart.

we did scans every week and I was told he was growing just fine and healthy then suddenly he's born dead?

the possibilities of foul play and investigate for

a moment. Does she believe the same?

The birthmark.

have seen that. At first I also got taken aback when I saw it but I checked the

Leah's words echo in my

can you check for me the night I got so

are having a heart to heart and you're thinking about money?" He turns

do

his eyes before

can get his full sentence out, my

I immediately slide right.