Dear Ex-wife Marry Me by Twin Bridge

The police relayed the unsettling information to Fitch.

Fitch sat there in a daze, his tailored suit feeling constrictive, his mind reeling. He thought he had a firm grasp of the darker side of

human nature, but the idea of someone wrecking their own life to spite their child was new territory even for him.

He suddenly realized he truly didn't know Zoey at all.

Had the police not revealed the truth, he would have pinned it on her without hesitation. Wasn't that the kind of woman she was in

his eyes?

Yet now, his perceptions were being systematically dismantled.

How devastated was Zoey when Wendy stormed in, causing a scene that led to her beloved pup, Ozzy, being snatched from her

arms?

What emotions fueled her when she mustered the courage to confront the Haskins, her temper flaring to the point of almost

striking Wendy?

After being slapped by the man she fancied and skulking away, her world must have crumbled to dust.

Fitch had sailed through life with few setbacks, save for a shadow cast over his childhood. But Zoey, it seemed her entire existence

was cloaked in shadows.

The frustration was creeping back in. He regretted not keeping a cool head the previous night, for not taking the tto properly

evidence

should have been more patient,

something irreplaceable, and no matter how

seemed futile.

any

Zoey earlier that

imagined she would be tearfully

was

what must have been his umpteenth cigarette

chain-smoking three in a row, he dialed

face the scorn of her social circle and the ridicule spreading

situation

of hope in her eyes when she saw Fitch's non her phone was

her.

she whimpered,

was

"Where's Ozzy?"

felt as though a hand had clasped around her throat. She was paralyzed, unsure of how

to her that Fitch, of all

drained of color, her

ask? Fitch, I

deepened. "Do you takefor

was clear, and her denial now suggested she thought he was not only

Fitch's call might be motivated

mix of fury and

we still getting

"Don't you know that?"

change, I really can. I truly care about you, I'd do anything for