All Chapters of Please Don’t Go, My Ex: Chapter 61 - Chapter 70

Chapter — The Weight of My MistakeBen's POVThe sound of the slap still echoed in my ears.I could barely feel the sting in my chest.What truly hurt was the look in her eyes.Elena was staring at me as if I were the enemy.Not Daniel.Me.My body felt unbearably heavy. My hands were still half-raised from when I had tried to hold her shoulders. Slowly, I let them fall to my sides. I did not even know what to do with them anymore.Then she spoke."Ben, do you even know that Vanessa is Daniel's sister?"Everything inside me stopped.What?My eyes snapped to her face. She was not guessing. She was not accusing without proof.She knew.My mouth opened, but no words came out.She stepped closer, her voice trembling with pain but sharp enough to cut through me."Do you even know that she faked her fall?""Do you know everything she did to destroy me?""To destroy my children?""To destroy all of us?"Every word hit harder than the slap.Vanessa...Daniel's sister?She faked the fall?She

Chapter — Two LinesElena's POVThe house is noisy today.Far too noisy.Eli and Ela are arguing over a game in the living room. Their voices rise and fall through the house, full of life, full of energy, full of the kind of happiness I have been fighting so hard to protect.I try to smile as I watch them.They are laughing.They are happy.And I want to keep it that way."Take turns," I tell them gently.Ela rolls her eyes dramatically while Eli immediately starts protesting. I shake my head and pretend to be strict, even though I can barely hold back a smile.But something feels wrong.Again.That same uncomfortable feeling.It begins in my stomach.A slight tightening.A faint ache.Then it slowly spreads upward until it settles heavily in my chest.I swallow hard.Not again.For several days now, I have been feeling this way. Sometimes it happens in the morning. Sometimes it wakes me up in the middle of the night. Sometimes it happens whenever I smell food.I kept telling myself i

Chapter — StopElena's POVThe hospital smelled too clean.Everything about the place felt cold, sterile, and unnervingly white.An unsettling silence hung in the air, making every sound seem louder than it should have been.There was something intimidating about hospitals, as though every step taken within those walls had the power to change someone's life forever.Today, that life was mine.I sat in the waiting room with my hands resting on my knees. Even though the room was warm, my fingers felt frozen.A nurse stood in front of me holding a folder."Mrs. Elena, we are ready for you now."My heart lurched painfully.Ready.The word felt unbearably heavy.This was it.Slowly, I rose to my feet. My legs felt strange, almost as if they no longer belonged to me.The nurse offered a polite smile and motioned for me to follow her."Please come with me."I walked behind her through a long corridor illuminated by harsh overhead lights. The brightness was almost painful, and the sound of ou

Chapter — New Plans, New HopeElena’s POVI pushed the door open gently, my heart pounding hard inside my chest. Ela and Eli were sitting in the living room, their small faces tight with frustration and worry.“Where did you go, Mom?” Ela asked first, her voice high but filled with concern.Eli did not speak right away. Instead, he simply stared at me, his small hands gripping the edge of the couch. Even without words, I could see the fear and anger lingering in his eyes.I took a deep breath and walked toward them, moving slowly and carefully. Lowering myself onto the floor, I sat close enough to hold them if they wanted comfort, yet far enough away to give them space.“There’s something I want to tell you,” I said softly.My voice trembled despite my efforts to stay calm.“Something important.”They exchanged a glance.I watched their little chests rise and fall quickly as they struggled to contain both their fear and their curiosity.“I... I found out something about myself,” I beg

Chapter — Face to FaceElena’s Point of ViewI sank a little deeper into the soft cushions of the living room sofa, pretending to watch the television, even though my mind had not been on the program for even a single second for the past hour, because instead of following the moving images on the screen, every sound in the house kept tightening something inside my chest, every shadow that passed across the walls felt like it was watching me, every creak in the floorboards seemed to announce danger that had not yet arrived but was already too close to ignore.I was not supposed to be here like this, not in this house, not in this situation, not while Vanessa was still staying in Ben’s home, but I had already made my decision before I walked in, and now that I was here I was not leaving, not tonight, not anymore, because something in me had finally stopped running and started standing still.Then I heard it, the soft sound of footsteps approaching, slow and controlled, the kind that car