Dear Ex Wife Please take me back novel Chapter 110

ATHENA

I freeze when Leah lunges forward, her voice sharp and wild, slicing through the tense silence like a blade, making everyone halt their movements.

Her eyes are full blazed, angry as she stands before me,

“I don’t want Athena or her blood anywhere near my son!”

The words hang in the air, loud, raw, and cruel.

Every head in the waiting room turns.

I slowly pull my hand back from Alex’s arm as if I’ve been burned.

“What?” I whisper, my voice barely audible.

I heard her when she warned me to stay away from her son, and I respected that. Also, it's not my fault he kept coming to see me. What should I have done, kicked him out?

He's a child for crying out loud. Even I who hates both his parents, put that hate aside, and played with him.

“Leah!” Ariana gasps beside her, eyes wide in horror.

Even the nurse holding the clipboard is shocked by the outburst.

One would think I pushed the child myself.

“Why?” I ask quietly, trying to keep my voice steady. “Why are you so angry at me for wanting to help?”

Leah’s eyes spark, and she scoffs, folding her arms like she’s shielding herself from something unseen.

“Don’t act so innocent, Athena. You’re always there. Always around. And now this happens?”

The pieces don’t connect, at least not in the way she seems to think they do.

“I don’t understand,” I say honestly, meeting her glare. “What are you implying?”

Leah’s jaw clenches, and for a moment, I think she might lunge at me.

“I’m not implying anything. I just don’t want you involved. Not your blood, not your sympathy, nothing.”

“Are you afraid of something?” I question before I can stop myself.

It would make sense if she was afraid her son becomes more comfortable with me, and I really understand her anger. But all that understanding takes a wild turn when she opens her mouth to speak,

Her eyes widen. “Excuse me?”

“l assure you, you have nothing to worry about. Rayen has become my little friend, and I just want to help.”

I try to soothe the situation, but I guess when it involves Leah, anything I say is adding fuel to the fire because instead of being soothed, Leah scoffs loudly, turning to the others.

“Do you all hear this?” Her friends stare daggers at me as their friend speaks, “She thinks I’m worried about something? I’m his mother! I know what’s best for him, and the last thing he needs is her. She’s the reason he ended up in the snow to begin with!”

My breath catches.

Alex’s jaw ticks as I look at him from the corner of my eye. His eyes are calculating, but he doesn't say a thing.

That's Alex. A man of a few words, but when he opens his mouth to speak?

I shake my head and force my gaze back to this lunatic who keeps running her mouth while her son is lying unconscious, waiting for blood.

“Leah, I left early, so I didn’t even see him or speak to him on my way out.”