Dear Ex Wife Please take me back by The Every Woman

Chapter 133

ALEX

We're almost to the car park.

The echo of our footsteps fills the concrete silence, tension hanging thick in the air.

Athena is quiet beside me, her hands in the pockets of her coat.

Mum hasn't said a word since the session ended. We have more than enough to have Leah locked up for life. But I won't stop there. Her family will lose everything.

I'll make sure of it.

"Athena, go on ahead sweetie."

Mum's voice cuts through my thoughts as she halts her steps.

I freeze.

Athena glances between us, sensing the shift, but doesn't argue. She nods and walks ahead toward the car, her coat swaying around her ankles.

The moment she's out of earshot, Mum grabs my arm, not hard, but firm.

Her short nails digging slightly into my sleeve. I look down into her eyes.

And I know.

She's hurt.

And it breaks my heart.

But I had no choice, I had to keep it from her to protect her. I'll admit, at the beginning, I did it to punish them for how neglected I felt. I hoped I would drop dead one day, and they would come back home to my cold body, and when the doctors told them what killed me, it would haunt them.

That was my punishment to them, but over the years, my reason began to change. I guess I saw how she struggled with granny and didn't want her to feel like it was her fault. I also didn't want granny to blame herself into thinking she did this to me.

"How long," she asks, her voice low and trembling, "How long have you kept from us the fact that you have a heart condition?"

I open my mouth, but nothing comes out.

She stares me down, every inch of her the formidable woman the world fears

except now it's hurt and her eyes are shining with tears.

Tears for me.

Her son.

My throat tightens. "Mum-"

"How long, Alexander?"

Silence.

I can't lie.

Not to her.

Not anymore.

was seventeen," I say

step back like I've struck

voice cracks. "You've been hiding it

sick every time I took a flight-" "And instead I'm standing here listening to a psychopath confess that she used your condition against you," she snaps, cutting me off. "That she triggered it. And you're lucky to be alive because you thought what? Protecting us

I drop my gaze.

it's

I had to hear

Do you have any idea what that did to me

now rolling down her

take away my

She sobs.

And it guts me.

"I'm sorry," I whisper.

through her hair as if trying

get to die on me," she says finally, her voice barely steady. "You don't get to

I whisper and

tomorrow."

I nod slowly.

looks past me where Athena is

everything too. Or I

turns and

holds my hands and softly tugs me as we

asks, seeing my mother's red

and gives me a kiss before doing the

you at

hold her door open and drive off. So much has happened

know what to

the car is

hasn't spoken since we got in, and I can't bring myself to start. My fingers tighten around the steering wheel, but I

her voice cracking, the look in her

take away my

you can name

Athena shifts

should say anything," she

you should be driving right

Her eyes meet mine briefly

still anger. But

Rayen's sake, I'm

but even I don't

She raises an eyebrow.

we will co-parent, but you look like you've been punched

I blink at her.

for the first time in hours, I feel

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