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

the evidence she had

have been more patient,

like the shattering of something irreplaceable, and no matter

seemed futile.

had never felt this way about any woman. He mistook it for

Zoey earlier that

imagined she would be tearfully grateful, given her affection

Zoey was too

stood by the window, lighting what must have been his umpteenth cigarette

chain-smoking three in a

afraid to face the scorn of her social circle and the

she was, the situation left

of hope in her eyes when she saw Fitch's non her phone was unmistakable. She was certain he

her.

whimpered,

was cold as

"Where's Ozzy?"

a hand had clasped around her throat.

her that Fitch, of all people, would care about the whereabouts of a

face drained of color, her body

Fitch,

Fitch's gaze deepened. "Do you takefor a

now suggested she thought he was

further, especially at the thought that Fitch's call might be motivated by concern for

with a mix of

we still

"Don't you know that?"

can. I truly care about you, I'd do anything for you. Fitch, no one