Dear Ex Wife Please take me back by The Every Woman

Chapter 124

ALEX

The walls of the hospital feel like they're closing in.

The lights overhead are buzzing too damn loud, the sterile air stings my nose, and

the rhythmic ticking of the clock on the wall claws at what's left of my sanity.

I don't speak.

I haven't said a word since we got here.

I sit, with my elbows on my knees, my fingers locked tight, and my jaw clenched

so hard it aches. Every part of me is burning, vibrating with a fury I'm barely keeping caged.

Not at the universe.

Not at fate.

At me.

I let this happen.

I let Leah get that close.

I fell for her lies.


Over and over again.

I believed her sob story. Let her manipulate me. And in doing so, I said the unthinkable to Athena. For the past five years, I've felt indebted to her.

Not knowing I was a jackpot in her game. Pictures of me plastered on the wall in her secret room are drilled in my fucking mind.

What a fool I've been.

Me!

Alexander King. Fooled from the word go and played like fucking ping-pong.

when Luca showed me

drink and pretended

on

I said those awful things. Accused

child and called her unfit

her deeper than any bullet ever

me to listen to her but I didn't. I even thought I was punishing


Fuck!

Let her because it's the least I

because she stepped between Athena and death like a damn

in my chest

Hotter.

echoing off the cold walls. Across the hall, Athena paces like a ghost, blood still smeared across her dress and arms, her eyes are glassy but

hasn't looked at

I don't blame her.

look at

will forgive me for what I said to

ask her?" He retorts

the emergency doors and waiting for Isabelle and

wife to be" His


did he start dating

and mum,

eyes are wild,

fuck was

he gasps. "Where's Sloane? What

gaze away from Athena as she sinks down beside me, her

bitch myself..... how dare she? Oh

arms around her in a

say quietly, not

bullet. It should have been me in there. Then maybe,

as I give dad

room swings open with a jarring

she?" Noah is the first to


"I have good news and bad

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