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.

to the exit, it would

been guarding Cynthia had been

likely having attempted escape multiple times,

now was that lan couldn't

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of all, lan was

associates and asked, "Can't we get that thing off

we've tried everything before you got here. The

for sensors

but the walls and the anklet

choice might be to blow this place, but this lady won't make it out before the blast.

a tense silence as these

at the floor, his bodyguard added, "The floor's

on the ground, aware of someone nearby but clueless as to who it

that she was mere meters away from her daughter, blind and deaf, while her daughter could only

mouth.

Maja called out, "Mom."

No response.

she was

with her rescuers just in front of her, doomed to remain caged, seemingly for

bitter sting at the tip of her nose, a

"Maja!"

startled and hurried to her side, holding her

"Maja, don't scare me."

emotion. They had only just reunited, and before he could say anything, she