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.

Cynthia got too close to the exit, it would

goons who had been guarding Cynthia had been

Cynthia, likely having attempted escape multiple

was that lan couldn't

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was running out

as he turned to his associates and asked,

The material

his temples, "Check for sensors by

into that. The basement seems mundane, but the walls and the anklet are made of the sstuff.

might be to blow this place, but this lady won't make it out

a tense silence

his bodyguard added, "The

of someone nearby but clueless as to who it

know 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

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

nose, a

"Maja!"

to her

"Maja, don't scare me."

emotion. They had only just reunited,