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.

how I felt when Luca showed me

spiked my drink

I went on to

I can still see her face when I said

called her

her deeper than any bullet ever

begged me to listen to her but I didn't. I even thought I was punishing her when I gave Rayen


Fuck!

it's the least I can do to compensate for my mess. Everything was going to wrap

in there, fighting for her life because she stepped between Athena and

rage in my chest twists

Hotter.

Athena paces like a ghost, blood still smeared across her dress and arms, her eyes are

looked at

I don't blame her.

wouldn't look

to her?" I ask

retorts and I fight the urge to knock

the emergency doors and waiting for Isabelle and the

His voice echoes in my


he

burst open behind us and mum, dad

eyes are wild, and panic is etched across his

the fuck was he

gasps. "Where's Sloane? What the hell happened to

gaze away from Athena as she sinks down beside me, her arms going around my shoulders as

that little bitch myself..... how dare she? Oh God, please let Sloane be

around her

quietly, not

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

mum's hair gently as I give dad a

door to the operating room swings open with a jarring creak making us all rise

is the first


and bad news which one do

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