Dear Ex Wife Please take me back by The Every Woman

Chapter 113

ATHENA

Anna's words hit me like a truck, and I feel like I've just been kicked in the chest. Air escapes my lungs in a wheeze. My hands curl into fists on the table, nails biting into my palms until it stings.

"I thought she went abroad and gave birth a month later than I did." My eyes are bloodshot red, and I can barely keep my voice steady.

"There was no baby. As far as I know. I don't know whose child they switched with, but Leah didn't go anywhere. She's been around the whole time, and they probably made the date a month later to avoid suspicion. Maybe they feared Mr. King will notice a few things that show she's guilty."

"Why?" I whisper, barely able to breathe. "Why would she... do something so evil?"

"I don't know," Anna replies, her voice trembling now. "But she wasn't alone. There were people helping her, people with influence. This wasn't just about jealousy or revenge. I'm so sorry, Athena. I understand you're angry and you'll want to report me."

I laugh.

A cold hallow sound echoes through the empty diner as I look at Anna.

"I trusted you. Yet you stabbed me in the back. You're a mother. How would you feel if it was done to you?"

"I'm a mother. That is why I did it. Wouldn't you do anything if it meant protecting your child?"

"So what changed? You felt a little guilty and showed up?"

"No. My son and I have enough money to leave the country unseen. I just thought leaving without confessing-"

"Cut the bullshit. Why did you really tell me the truth?"

Anna flinches at my words, her hands trembling as she grips the edge of the table.

There's a beat of silence, heavy and suffocating.

Then she exhales shakily, her voice barely a whisper.

"Because me and my son are in danger."

My blood turns to ice.

So if they were still under protection, she would still have kept the truth and made me suffer after...

"Did you also mess with the report?"

"What report?"

where you said I tried

don't know anything about that. Please, listen to me. They're tying up loose ends,

to come after me. That's why I'm running. But I couldn't just disappear without telling

disappeared the second you handed over my baby like he was nothing!" I slam my hand on the table, making

instead, you show up, acting like you're

opens and closes, but I don't give

had no choice! My son, my only son. They threatened his life. I'm a

hollow, and stripped of warmth. My eyes bore into

want me to feel sorry for you?" I ask, my tone now deadly quiet. "You think hiding behind motherhood makes you

the shame on her face turning

begging you, Athena. Please. I don't want to die. I have nowhere else to go.

slowly, a cold smile stretching

you've done. Send your son's details. I will keep him safe because he doesn't need

I stand.

steps are confident until I

since i'm too stunned to utter a word, he lifts me and

hurt you?"

my head,

doesn't ask me any further

immediately zone out as I start to

do you do when you

feel relief to

when you were accused of killing your own child, denied

you become a ticking time bomb. That's nothing close to how

I'm angry.

I'm furious.

of fury that lives in your bones and

my lap that I feel my nails

motherhood, my dignity my right to grieve. And for what? So that the bitch Leah

that was

so freaked out when I offered

have Alex in her hands. That's the card she's

to sit there, crying crocodile tears, begging for my protection like I'm some fucking

she doesn't get to hide behind motherhood. Not after what she did to

was a murderer. Letting the world spit on my name

don't care who's chasing

Let them come.

Let them find her.

her won't even scratch the surface of what she