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 she

have been more patient,

like the shattering of something irreplaceable, and no matter how desperately he tried to

seemed futile.

about any woman.

brought over a new puppy to Zoey earlier that day, it was out of

imagined she would be tearfully

Zoey was too

the window, lighting what must

chain-smoking three in a row, he

face the scorn of her

was, the situation left

Fitch's non her

her.

she whimpered, her voice

his reply was cold as

"Where's Ozzy?"

as though a hand had clasped around her throat. She was paralyzed,

all

face drained of color, her

do you ask? Fitch, I

gaze deepened. "Do you takefor a

evidence was clear, and her denial now suggested she thought he was not only foolish but blind as

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

a mix of fury and

we

"Don't you know that?"

I'd do anything for you. Fitch, no one loves you