Dear Ex-wife Marry Me by Twin Bridge

lan stepped closer, only to notice a red light blinking on the anklet strapped to Cynthia's leg.

He tugged at the device, and a man's voice emerged from within.

"Cynthia, you trying to make a run for it again?"

"Why the urge to flee, why so disobedient?"

"Do you really wantto break your legs?"

The man's voice, despite its softness, sent chills down lan's spine.

Cynthia, now deaf to the world, seemed to sense the anklet's alarm.

She desperately tried to rip the device off her ankle to no avail.

"Fuck off!"

"Fuck off!"

Her fingernails dug into her flesh, but the anklet wouldn't budge, the man's voice still echoing from it.

"Gone blind, gone deaf, do I need to render you mute too?"

"Get any closer to that door, and you'll get zapped again. Just stay put, stop struggling."

That's when lan realized this basement was no ordinary place.

It wasn't just blocking external signals. It was rigged with various switches.

close to the

who had been guarding Cynthia had been hit by this very

multiple times, had grown

that

fearing anyone who tried to take her away was a threat. Sᴇaʀ*ᴄh

all, lan was

turned to his associates and asked, "Can't we get that thing off her

we've tried everything before you got here. The material is

temples, "Check for

The basement seems mundane, but the walls and the anklet are made

this place, but this lady won't make it out before the blast. She'd go down with the

fell into a tense silence as these words

glanced at the floor, his bodyguard added,

someone nearby

know that she was mere meters away from her daughter,

mouth.

Maja called out, "Mom."

No response.

but she was paralyzed, her body refusing

rescuers just in front of

the tip of her nose, a suffocating

"Maja!"

startled and hurried to her side,

"Maja, don't scare me."

only just reunited, and before he could say anything,