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 the

drink and

on to

her face when I said those awful things.

called her

deeper than any

I didn't. I even thought I was punishing her when I


Fuck!

I can't think clearly. Athena asked me to let her take charge of the revenge and I Let her because it's the least

for her life because she stepped between Athena and death like

in my chest

Hotter.

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

looked at

I don't blame her.

look

said to her?" I ask Luca who is sitting next to me and

He retorts and I fight the urge

been staring at the emergency doors

be" His voice


did he

and mum, dad and

his eyes are

the fuck was he

Sloane? What the hell happened

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

how dare she?

wrap my arms around her in

say quietly, not knowing if I'm soothing mum or

taken that damn bullet. It should have been me in there. Then maybe, just maybe, Athena would look at

dad a

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

Noah is


news and bad news which one do

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