Dear Ex Wife Please take me back by The Every Woman

ALEX

"Report," I say to Ryan as I step into the Detention center where Leah is being held as she waits for trial which is the day after tomorrow.

Ryan falls into step with me as we walk, and he responds. "She hasn't said a word. She keeps pleading the Fifth. Detectives can't get anything out of her. She's been stonewalling since the moment she was brought in."

I stop walking and turn to face him slowly, my eyes narrowing.

"What?"

Ryan stiffens, swallowing hard. He looks like he's seen a damn ghost.

I stare at him, my jaw clenched so hard I'm shocked my teeth are not falling off.

"Ryan," I say with deadly calm, "you have ten seconds to explain what the hell you're talking about."

He flinches slightly, but then his eyes meet mine, "It seems she has someone backing her. Otherwise, why would she be so confident and arrogant with all this evidence against her?"

I breathe in through my nose, slowly, carefully. Hoping it will calm me down.

It doesn't.

It fucking makes me see red.

"She asked for her lawyer, but the idiot didn't even show up. But that didn't seem

to bother her. She's so sure she'll walk out free. I was going to report it to you, but...," he trails off.

I understand why he didn't. Luca's word is as final as mine, so he obviously took it as my order.

We step through the security doors, my

the tiles. When we reach the viewing room with the two-

crossed, I watch the

is seated with a slouched posture, casually chewing gum like she's waiting for a fucking nail appointment. The detective

threaten the doctor in charge that

gum and

random baby and kill him to

"Fifth." She smiles.

and I feel my blood

the only thing saving her right now. My jaw locks, muscles ticking as I watch her lean back like this is a joke. Like she didn't rip lives apart. Like she didn't shatter Athena. Like she

and touched what she shouldn't have, and yet she wants to hide behind

Delusional enough to

shooting Sloane?" He asks, and my heart stops. A picture of my cousin lying in bed as she fights for her life with no guarantee of her being able to walk again flashes before me, and I lose it when she checks her

the

rage I haven't unleashed in years not since the days I earned the reputation that made grown men piss themselves at my

as I watch her lick her lips, chewing

don't even realize I've moved until Ryan grips my

the

I can see

Good.

He should be afraid.

that,

take my eyes off Leah as I step forward. Slowly. Like a predator that's

a

reaching toward the console with

Click.

red light above the camera blinks