Dear Ex Wife Please take me back by The Every Woman

Chapter 157

ATHENA

"I had to check on you guys. Did anything happen?" He asks, and my frown

deepens.

"What are you talking about?" I ask, confusion etched on my face.

He steps in and pulls my hand to the couch. I let him because I want to hear why he looks like he came running.

"Listen to me, don't pick any calls in the meantime. Do you understand? I've brought you a new line you can use for family and close friends for now." His thumb brushes my knuckles.

"Am I a wanted woman? What the hell is going on?" I ask.

"Well... you see-"

Before he can complete the sentence, Rayen rushes forward

"Daddy!" he grins, grabbing Alex's hand.

"Come! You have to see my new bedroom. I arranged my toys like you showed me!"

Alex chuckles, glancing at me before giving in. "Alright, little man. Lead the way."

I watch them disappear down the hallway, my mind racing with a dozen questions Alex didn't get to answer.

A few minutes later, I call out from the kitchen,

"Rayen! Dinner's ready!"

Little footsteps patter down the hall, followed by heavier ones. Rayen appears first.

"Mummy, can Daddy eat with us?" he asks hopefully, looking over his shoulder as Alex walks in behind him.

I open my mouth to say something, but Alex beats me to it.

"I'm very hungry, actually," he says, meeting my gaze with a straight face. "I missed lunch."

I narrow my eyes at him.

That's very possible because even while we were married, he used to skip lunch and burry himself in work.

But isn't that too intimate?

I don't want to paint a false picture for my son only to come and disappoint him.

But one time, it can't hurt.

Right?

nasty

climbs into his chair and starts babbling

"What's wrong with you?"

not about to kick out a hungry

low, teasing just enough to make me want to throw

sharply, muttering under

"Unbelievable."

and pulls out the chair beside

he keeps this up, I might actually start throwing

his father's shoulder while his

would leave, but Rayen kept insisting

didn't have the heart to take that excitement away from him, so

and now, hours later, he

I whisper, walking to

want Daddy

his expression softening in the dim light of the living

that okay with

taken aback. It's like someone clowned my ex-husband and replaced

a human being.

course."

can't keep him from

his arms as if he's cradling something

right back," he says,

nod, crossing my

head upstairs. Rayen's smal hand clutches the fabric of his father's shirt his headresting peacefully against Alex's

shouldn't hurt to

But it does.

supposed to be

was supposed to be our everyday

A normal family.

a time when this was all I

so much

before the sting behind my eyes wins, busying myself with

mugs and Rayen's scattered toys

returns. He doesn't speak at first. He

stairs, watching me

he finally says, breaking the

once. "He had a

He doesn't leave.

of Rayen's tiny socks

he says after a beat.

words hit deeper than I expected. I don't know if it's the sincerity

that it's coming from him, but

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