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."

The goons from K's outfit were already on

in his arms, lan made his way

of the basement, the two stunned guards

it always was for her, a silence that felt as if she was

of the basement, over a thousand cameras watched her, like a

unaware that someone had tried to rescue

whom she had worried

of the basement when a barrage of

men were

had cto, his eyes fixing lan with a

frowned, holding Maja

Patric chuckled coldly.

you think you can

you

a smirk as he pointed

a deal with K, let

grabbed Patric's collar, anger flashing in

lost your mind,

swatted his

mad. lan, how about neither of us leave? Let's

to his fate, unafraid of dying at lan's

collar and grabbed a knife from nearby,

was determined to find the

Patric had buried the tracker close to his heart as a safeguard

a surgeon. A slip of the knife, and Patric was

it meant Eric would

lan would have killed his own elder