Dear Ex Wife Please take me back by The Every Woman

ALEX

Pain is the first thing I register. It's not the numbing kind. The brutal kind. The kind that cuts through your nerves and reminds you you're still alive when you shouldn't be.

I thought I was going to die. I was ready to die, but shockingly, my girl saved me.

Fuck, I owe her every breath. I didn't want her exposed but the deed has been done, I'll just have to fix those posing as a threat.

I can feel the stitches in my chest like they're mocking me with every breath. My body's weak, my limbs are fucking heavy.

But something inside me is burning. Something deeper than pain.

Rage.

Because she's not here.

Because I heard them. The anesthesia must have weared off because I heard Dad talking to mum about how Athena has been called again and he's making some calls.

My vision is red.

I rip the IV from my arm and ignore the scream of the machines. The nurse tries to rush to my side.

I grab her wrist midair.

"Don't. Touch. Me."

Her eyes widen as she stumbles back.

"I need a wheelchair!" she shouts.

"No," I growl. "Bring me Luca."

"Mr. King."

"Bring me Luca. Now!"

She flinches and then rushes out.

I'm in pain right now, telling me I need to lie down isn't what I need right now.

Luca appears minutes later, storming in with Mum behind him.

"Alex," she starts gently, "you need to lie down. You're barely-"

"Where is she?"

"Who?" She asks innocently.

"Mum, where is she?"

She swallows.

"She's... being questioned. But your father is-"

"I'll pick her myself!" I turn to leave when she tugs on my hospital shirt.

"Baby, you just woke up and had a delicate surgery. Trust your father to handle this, he's not going to let anything happen to her."

Over my dead fucking body! I'm not spending another second without seeing her.

face should have been the

her husband," I snap, "He's yours. Call

goes

just had open-heart

the way the pain shoots down my side. "Try

looks ready to argue, but I cut

resting had you protected her. It's a good thing

No one answers.

all I need to

up and rip off the

do you

nearby and throw it over my

back what's mine."

"You can barely walk-❞

"Then crawl behind me."

My body may be broken, but my

if I have to. No one touches her again. No one questions her without

this son of a bitch for trying to touch my

come here. Uncle Eli was handling it." Her sweet voice which I missed so much scolds me as she drives

everything tied to his name." I grit through my teeth

and Ryan for failing to protect

on is

but I can smell the fear still clinging to her. I can see the redness around her wrists where that bastard pinned

mutters, her eyes on

"I don't need to."

into that goddamn station half-alive with a pulse line and

might pass out right now for fucks sake. But I hold on because she will only

and

us, but not the

whispers. "You

Wrong thing to say.

my head

tried to hit you. They should never

to fix that

Her jaw clenches.

the first thing you think of

I smile.

me? Making me kill for you and

me. " I don't want you to

break their legs

"None of that either."

can do. How else

tone trying to stay firm. "If

recovery. Your life. I'm not worth

her turn to face me as she hits a brake on

say that again.

"You almost died-"

I harden my

and more. I won't have her thinking

second.

nods as she faces back on

She's quiet now.