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

lean forward, elbows on

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

memory of those goddamn photos, "She didn't want to be a mother. Not a mother of my

sounds foreign in my own ears, hoarse and bitter, like something

see her with Noah or the bastard,

into fists. "She's carefree and laughs at almost everything. I've seen my cousin grow. He couldn't make a dollar from telling a funny joke.

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

The question haunts me.

she with him but

giving up our

if not, if she's not with him, then what

him, if they're not building some kind of perfect life together, then she really did

raking my fingers through my

quiet for a moment

it. You're in love with

like his lost his mind. Which I

"You've lost your brains?."

and I let out a cold

my kid, you fuckers. Loving

if she didn't and

never believed Athena is capable of doing such thing. She's feisty with a nasty temper but she is also warm at heart. Maybe you should do an investigation, which of course I can

baby a stillborn? I had the best doctors, Luca. You were there, we did scans every week and I was told he was growing just fine and healthy then suddenly he's born dead? Does that make

of foul play

Does she believe the same? Is that why she gave me such a sad

The birthmark.

when I saw it

that night.." Leah's words echo

I got so drunk I

having a heart to heart and you're thinking

fucking do it." I

his eyes

lan can get his

I immediately slide right.