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.

thought she saved me. Imagine how I felt when Luca showed

spiked my drink and pretended

went on to

I said those awful things.

called her unfit

her deeper than any bullet

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


Fuck!

and I Let her because it's the least

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

in my

Hotter.

the hall, Athena paces like a ghost, blood still smeared across her dress and arms,

looked

I don't blame her.

wouldn't look at

will forgive me for what I said to her?" I ask Luca who is sitting

ask her?" He retorts and I fight the urge to

doors and

wife to be" His voice echoes in


did he

open behind us and mum, dad

are wild, and panic is

fuck

happened?" he gasps. "Where's Sloane? What

as she sinks down beside me, her arms going around my shoulders as she presses her tear-soaked cheek to

myself..... how dare

my arms around her in

make it." I say quietly, not knowing if I'm soothing mum

bullet. It should have been me in there.

as I give dad

swings open with a jarring creak making

Noah is the first to


and bad news which one do

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