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.

should have been the

I snap, "He's

room goes

forward, "you just had open-heart surgery. You're not going

shift, ignoring the way the pain shoots

looks ready to argue, but

you protected her. It's a good thing

No one answers.

all I need to

up and rip

do you think you're going?"

left nearby and throw it

back what's mine."

"You can barely walk-❞

"Then crawl behind me."

grit through it. My body may be broken, but my

tear apart the entire goddamn justice system if I have to. No one touches her again. No one questions her without going

of a bitch for trying to touch my girl. He should thank

which I

touched you. I will come back for him and everything tied to his name." I grit through my teeth ignoring what she said because all my mind keeps replaying is that

going to kill Luca and Ryan for failing to

on is the way they're trembling. She slightly controls it, But I

calm but I can smell the fear still clinging to her. I can

she mutters, her eyes

"I don't need to."

that goddamn station half-alive with a pulse line and

fucks sake. But I hold on because she

crying and that does shit to

swallows us, but not the uncomfortable

whispers. "You didn't have to

Wrong thing to say.

head slowly

tried to hit you. They should never have called

to fix

Her jaw clenches.

up and the first

I smile.

me? Making me kill for you and

at me. " I don't want you to kill

legs

"None of that either."

do. How else will

exhales, her tone trying to stay firm. "If you go after a

recovery. Your life. I'm not

her turn to face me as she hits a brake on the

that

"You almost died-"

I harden

won't have her thinking otherwise,

second.

as she faces

She's quiet now.