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?"

you said

know anything about that. Please, listen to me. They're tying up loose ends,

the truth. They tried to come after me. That's why I'm running.

handed over my baby like he was

a cell right now. But instead, you

opens and closes, but I

Anna's voice breaks. "I had no choice! My son, my only son. They threatened his life.

laugh, but it's cold, hollow, and stripped of

my tone now deadly quiet. "You think hiding behind motherhood makes you less

goes silent, the shame on her face turning

I have nowhere else to go.

tilt my head slowly, a

the consequences of what you've done. Send your son's details.

I stand.

confident until I reach outside, where Zayan rushes to me as my legs give out from

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

you?" His eyes search

my

me any

out as I start to process

you do when you

relief to

own child, denied seeing his face and fucking kicked out

rage your heart boils you become a ticking time

I'm angry.

I'm furious.

of fury that lives in your bones and screams through

fists clench so tightly in my lap that I

stole my motherhood, my dignity my right to grieve. And for what? So that the bitch Leah could play house with a baby that

baby that was

so freaked out when I

guess she needs him to have Alex in her hands. That's the card she's

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

doesn't get to hide behind motherhood. Not

a murderer. Letting the world spit on my name while she tucked

don't care who's chasing

Let them come.

Let them find her.

her won't even scratch the surface of what