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,

stressed because she's good

forward, elbows on my

out why she's so good to

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

my own ears, hoarse and bitter, like something scraped up

see her with Noah or the bastard,

I've seen my cousin grow. He couldn't make a dollar from telling a funny joke. So

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

The question haunts me.

with him but hiding

it worth it, giving up our little boy's

him, then what the hell

did it for nothing, if she's not with him, if they're not building some kind

losing it," I mutter, raking my

quiet for a

losing it. You're

his lost his

"You've lost your brains?."

are." Luca supports him, and I

my kid, you fuckers. Loving her is the last

if she didn't

believed Athena is capable of doing such thing. She's feisty with a nasty temper but she

did scans every week and I was told he was growing just fine and healthy

the possibilities of foul play and investigate for the sake of

the same? Is that why

The birthmark.

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

that night.." Leah's words echo in my

can you check for me the night I got so drunk I messed up the signature and

bastard. We are having a heart to heart and you're thinking about money?" He turns to lann, "Can you

do

rolls his eyes before

can get his full sentence out,

I immediately slide right.