Dear Ex-wife Marry Me by Twin Bridge

Tears streamed down Maja's cheeks in heavy drops as the weight of her predicament bore down on her.

What was she to do? After all the trouble to find her mother, was she to leave her in this cold, dreary basement?

Who could be so cruel? Who was responsible for this?

Her lips tightened, a cold fury settled in her eyes. Never before had she felt such a desire to take someone's life.

"Maja."

lan wrapped his arms around her, feeling utterly helpless.

He had planned for every contingency, but he hadn't expected the stronghold where they held Cynthia to be so impenetrable.

Gunshots still echoed in the background as he lifted Maja into his arms.

She tried to struggle, but her strength was failing her.

"I'm sorry, you need to rest."

With a swift chop to the nape of her neck, lan knocked her out.

Maja's eyes widened in disbelief before she slipped into unconsciousness.

Behind them, Cynthia remained seated behind the door, oblivious to the chaos outside, her detached expression unchanged.

lan signaled to his men with a calm voice.

"Have the mute caretaker that looked after her continue to do so."

"Understood."

had to get Maja out first. The goons

Maja in his arms, lan made his

the two stunned

as it always was for her, a silence that felt as if she was the only person left in the

the basement, over a thousand cameras watched her,

door to the basement closed slowly, Cynthia remained unaware that someone had tried to rescue

whom she had worried over, had been

the basement

men were

Patric had cto, his eyes fixing

holding

Patric chuckled coldly.

think you can get out of

you done?" lan

a smirk as he

with K, let him plant a tracker

collar, anger flashing in

lost

his

of us leave? Let's stay here on

resigned to his fate,

grabbed a knife from nearby, slicing open the fabric over Patric's

like lan was determined

Patric had buried the tracker close to

surgeon. A slip of the knife,

meant

meant lan would have killed his own