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

forward, elbows on

not for that reason, but I've been wrecking my brain trying to figure out why she's so

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

bitter, like something scraped up from the bottom of a

should see her with Noah or

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

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

The question haunts me.

with him but

up our little

with him, then what the hell was it all

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

losing it," I mutter, raking my fingers through my

quiet for a

it. You're in love with

look up at him like his lost his mind. Which I suspect he

"You've lost your brains?."

and I let out a cold

my kid, you fuckers. Loving her is the last thing I'd

she didn't and

leans forward, "I've never told you this but I've never believed Athena is capable of doing such thing. She's feisty with a nasty temper but she is also warm at

the 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 sense

Maybe consider the possibilities of foul play and

ponder on Luca's words for a moment. Does she believe the same? Is

The birthmark.

I also got taken aback when I saw it but I checked the records.

words echo in

me the night I got so drunk I messed up the signature and

heart to heart and you're thinking about money?"

fucking do it." I

rolls his eyes

can get his full sentence out, my

I immediately slide right.