Dear Ex Wife Please take me back by The Every Woman

ALEX

Blood splatters all over the walls as | throw the son of a bitch against the wall.

He lets out a painful groan but that doesn't holdback from gripping his hair and hitting him again and again.

"Alex, you've hit him enough. The fucker is in the middle of making amends." Luca releases a puff of smoke as

he leans against the wall.

"Shut up. I'm coming for your ass once I'm done with him." | growl as | pull Zayan's hair and hit it against the

wall.

"You must have a death wish for doing the shit you did! | held onto your secret for her sake but you had to go

and summon the monster insidedidn't you?"

Zayan coughs up blood, but | don't release my grip. | slam him again, this tharder, the sickening crack of his

skull hitting the concrete echoes through the apartment.

| raided his shitty place and if | didn't see how filthy it is, | would have gone after Ethan next. He made a wise

choice to cut him off financially.

He slumps, but | yank him back by the collar, keeping him upright because | want his eyes to see my dark ones

so he will remember. | want every the closes his eyes, my look to haunt him.

"She rarely trusts people. Yet she trusted you with a secret and you used it for your selfish gain, putting her and

my son in danger!" My voice is vibrating with anger and all | see is fucking red.

If not for the fact that Athena wants him to give the victim's family closure, | would have splattered his fucking

brains against the wall.

He gasps, his breath ragged. "I didn't have a choice- oumf"

| punch him in the ribs so hard his body folds over my fist.

"Don't you fucking dare."

"Alex," Luca warns again, but | don't even glance his way.

The fucker is next.

Zayan blinks through the blood streaming down his face, his lip trembling.

"I was trying to fix it-" he sputters.

| let out a dark laugh, cold and vicious.

"Fix it, you thought leaking and manipulating the story would clean your mess? You put a target on her back."

I slam him to the floor. He groans in pain, crawling as blood drips from his mouth, but I step on his hand crushing

his fingers until | hear the break.

He screams.

I kneel beside him, my voice low, calm, and deadly. "If she had cried one more night because of you... if Rayen

had seen her afraid even once... | would've gutted you in front of every man you sold your soul to."

Zayan wheezes. "I will make it right... i swear!"

| grab the back of his neck and shove his face to the ground.

"You don't get to swear shit. You knew what you were doing the second you sent that box to that idiot. Had my

uncle not saved him by taking it, | would have tied your asses against each other."

| press harder. He whimpers under me.

"Alex," Luca says again, but this this tone has an edge to it, "You're gonna kill him."

"I should."

"You do, and this doesn't stay in our circle. You know that. She will find out."

"That's the only thing keepingfrom ripping his heart out. Now listen you prick,"

| pause, my breathing rough, my hand trembling with rage.

Then | slowly let go, rising to my feet and glaring down at the sorry mess of a man bleeding on the carpet.

| hate messy situations.

Zayan looks up at me,

"Can | just say sorry to her? Please."

| must have hit his head too hard. | give him my coldest smile,

"Sure you can." | place my hands in my pockets. "You can even buy her pink lilies while you're at it."

"Really?"

I nod.

"Yes. She can put them on your

grave. Because if you go near her, I'll carve your heart out and watch you bleed out. | know you won't stay fong

in prison because of Ethan. | can change that but | have more. important things to do. So here is what will

happen, you wilbstay away from Athena. When you see her, run in the opposite direction. If you see her in a

shop, leave. If you're in the splane, jump the fuck out!" s

Zayan doesn't respond. He just lays there bloody, broken, and breathing shallow like he finally understands who

the real monster in this story is when it comes to protecting my girl.

| kneel again, this tslower. My voice drops, like steel wrapped in velvet.

"You don't get to look at her. You don't get to think about her. You're done." He nods, trembling.

Luca exhales beside me, rubbing his temple with that annoying cigarette between his fingers,

"You done now?"

| stand, adjusting my cuffs like | didn't just paint the room with someone's blood.

"Yeah," | mutter. "I have better things to do than babysit a traitor."

Luca tilts his head, amused. "So... do | still get punched or-?"

| grab him by the collar and slam him into the wall.

He grunts, but he doesn't fight me.

The bastard smirks like it's thrilling having my hand on his neck.

"Easy there, the ladies love this face. | had to do it and you know it!"

| push back and punch him.

Luca wipes the blood from his mouth, his tongue grazing his split lip as he chuckles darkly.

"Touchingwhile I'm in my army

uniform is pretty brave, King," he

mutters eyeing the with that

irritating glat in his eye. "But

because you're my favorite O

psychopath, I'll let it slide."

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I don't smile.

| step forward again, slow and dangerous.

"Say that again and I'll slide a bullet into your fucking kneecap just to see how

brave you sound crawling."

Luca raises both hands. "Alright,

alright," he says with a small smirk, but his tone softens But she's safe now, Alex That's all that matters You got

your revenge. You bled it out of him. My heart too. | must say, I'm wounded."

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| ignore the idiot. Because he's right. Even though | want to snap his neck for threatening Athena, he did save

her.

| glance down at Zayan, who hasn't moved. He won't be walking out of this place

for a while not unless someone drags him out.

| pull my phone out and text his annoying cousin,

Alex: [Might want to check on your precious cousin. The streets are dangerous these days, who knows? He might

be lying in his pool of blood as we speak.]

Ethan: [What the fuck did you do, Alex?]

Alex: [I left him breathing. Barely, but breathing all the same. You're welcome.]

| pause at the door, placing a hand on the frame, not looking back.

"And Luca..." | glance back over my shoulder, my eyes dark.

"If | ever catch you threatening Athena again, uniform or not... I'll make what I did

to Zayan look like a warm-up."

Luca gives a lazy smile,

"Wouldn't dream of crossing you."

| almost punch the idiot for the sarcasm but I hold back.

| miss my girl and that's exactly where | want to be right now.

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