Dear Ex Wife Please take me back by The Every Woman

Chapter 111 ~ I'll come with you

ATHENA

I thought the black box Marcus gave me would unsettle the pit in my stomach.

Well, guess what... I was wrong.

Because my heart has been on that text since I left Rayen recovering in the hospital a week ago.

"UNKNOWN:I know what happened to your child."

I tried to call the number.

It was off.

Still is.

And now, instead of fear, it's anger burning beneath my skin like wildfire..

How dare they try to play with me?

Do they have any idea what it means to lose a child?

Do they understand that kind of pain? The kind that never heals never softens, never lets go?

That's not something you dangle over someone's head like a cruel joke, then switch off your damn phone and vanish into silence.

I looked like I had seen a damn ghost as I came up with an excuse to avoid Ariana's questioning gaze.

I should've deleted that message.

But I didn't.

Because a tiny, maddening part of me, the same part that still dreams of tiny

fingers and lullabies in the middle of the night, hopes it's real.

Guilt has been eating me away for the past three years, so if whoever this is has

proof someone did something, and it wasn't as Alex claimed....

Tears spring to my eyes as I push the lump in my throat.

A child dying is one kind of pain, but being told it was because of you?

I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.

As I step out of the hospital after my shift, the cold air slaps me awake, snapping me out of my thoughts. The sky is gray, like it's mourning something too. The clouds hang low and heavy, the same way my heart feels.

My fingers tighten around the strap of my bag as I walk toward the parking lot.

I see a figure making

he

against my car with his arms crossed

is pulled up against the

unreadable, but I'm shocked to

see each other once

look like hell," he says casually, pushing off the

mutter, brushing past him to unlock

we'd said to only meet when we agree." I point

kept me worried I had to check

I've been-” I stop

have I been doing? Spiraling? Hoping? Slowly losing

been extremely busy and exhausted." I give

eyes study me. But he doesn't question me. He takes the keys from me and holds the door open when a brown envelope drops to the

to pick it, and my

they get

Athena? Are you okay?" Zayan pulls

as I look up at

grab the envelope and turn when Zayan

his chest, knocking the air out of

so close I can smell

that spark, the one Alex zaps me with just by being present, making all

has ruined me for anyone

look like it was

I argue, unable to back that up.

hair before holding the door open. But it's

"I can-"

the

sigh, what's with

in the car while the envelope burns in my hands. By the time

I've already

[MEET ME HERE]

it says and below is a

Who is this?

Could it be?

Zayan pulls me back and I fold the paper hoping

career was toast. Zayan

"Nothing."

tired and

old," I lie,

don't stop getting sick just

on the road. "You

"Yes I do."

thick with things