Dear Ex Wife Please take me back novel Chapter 82

ATHENA

My heart stutters. That voice.

Even if the years had dulled it, even if time had blurred every echo of that night, I’d still recognize it anywhere.

Leah.

The last time I saw her, she was standing in the doorway of my apartment with Alex’s child in her arms.

Rubbing it in my face that she had what I could never give him even if I tried.

I looked at the child for the first time, and my heart shattered. He was the spitting image of Alex with his eyes.

I shut the door in her face and applied to work in the furthest hospital I could find.

And now, she’s here.

Why is she here?

Dressed in a tailored navy-blue suit with a white coat, her hair pulled back in a bun that does nothing to soften the features on her face.

She’s flanked by six doctors, clearly a surgical team, all in identical white coats, all standing like soldiers in formation behind their commander.

The same smug expression I remember curls on her lips as she stops just a few steps from me.

“Well, well,” Leah muses, her eyes trailing over me like I’m a specimen she expected to find in the trash but discovered alive and kicking. “It's great to see you, Athena Dawson.”

I hold her gaze, refusing to let my face betray the chaos ripping through my chest.

What is she doing here?

Last I heard, Leah was supposed to be climbing the ranks at that prestigious city hospital; the one Alex was funding.

The one I never got a chance to reach because I was too busy trying to breathe again after what they both did.

My dream has always been to work alongside Iann Quinn. They're legendary, and my mother talked about his father all the time. The family that changed the world of medicine.

But I had to give that up and work at a local hospital for the sake of peace but seeing this blonde is standing in front of me, tells me I'll have to change the planet if I want her to stay the fuck away from me.

Did Alex finally marry her?

I search her hand for a ring but see nothing. But then again, most surgeons don’t wear jewelry.