Dear Ex Wife Please take me back by The Every Woman

ATHENA

"I'm so sorry about my stupid brother. His obsession with Alex got out of hand. He shouldn't have done that. If you want to kill him, you have my blessing," lan says, and I smile.

I do want to kill Arnold. But I've had enough blood on my name, and knowing Alex, he will just cause chaos.

He's just like his father. I mean, we haven't heard from John or know where his wereabout are since we got the formula. But knowing Eli paid him a visit, I'm pretty sure he is on the other side.

And by otherside, I mean the world of flowers where no living soul exists.

"Your mother will be so upset when she hears that," I say.

"My mother loves me. She'll understand." He passes me a cup of coffee, then sighs.

He looks like he's deep in thought, pretty much his signature look. Alex once told me lan is different from us. I didn't understand it then, but now... I'm starting to see it.

He processes feelings differently. Where we feel something at a ten, he feels it at a thousand.

It explains the way he loves his patients, how fiercely he protects his friends... and how completely devoted he is to Sloane. He barely leaves her side.

But Alex's words echo in my head like a warning,

"If he can feel that deeply with love, what happens when it's hate?"

"What has you so gone?" lan's voice snaps me back.

I smile faintly at him.

"I just have so much to think about, you know. Unlike me, your life is per"

I stop myself.

Stupid and Insensitive.

Ten points for

lan just shakes his head with

and Mum... they're everything to me. Losing one would cripple me. Losing both...

so calmly, like it's a

he takes another sip, his

Nothing will happen to them. My God, Athena, since when did

my eyes, forcing a smile to my lips.

snorts. "You're literally blinking like you've seen

"I'm just tired."

sipping his coffee. "You're spiraling, and it's obvious. You get this weird twitch in your eyebrow

myself, reaching for a croissant

that you

course, I notice, how

keeps growing in size, I see. Is that a must-have to join

man making my Queen laugh."

joining us on the table. "Should I prepare for World War three?" lan leans back in his chair. "You better. Because

roll my eyes, fighting the grin

not. He sprawls like a king, claiming his throne, stretching one arm along

are fixed on lan, narrowed...

unfazed. He pops a grape into his mouth like he

provoke the most dangerous

that's why they're best

flirting with my girl? Is death calling your

that makes me funnier.

his head, slow and calculating. "You know how

on