Dear Ex-wife Marry Me by Twin Bridge

She looked down, fighting the pain in her fingers and holding on.

Mia stood beside her, alternating between cursing and whispering, each word a hunting echo of the assault she had suffered.

Zoey didn't respond until Mia spat that she deserved to die. She shot back, "What if I really died?"

She was indeed tired of living; life never seemed to shine bright.

She was always abandoned, anyway. If her life could get these people off her back, then they could take it.

But Mia retorted, "Don't you think dying will be that easy for you. Just you wait!"

Zoey knew Mia was plotting something new, but she didn't know what would happen until Sharon showed up and slapped her

without hesitation.

That's when she grasped Mia's tactics.

She had always felt Mia was cut from the scloth as Belinda, and now she felt it more deeply than ever.

Mia had recorded their conversation on Zoey's phone—it was mostly about Mia's own breakdown, and she also confessed the

assault she endured.

Zoey hadn't said much, but to those unaware of the context, it seemed she had pushed Mia to the edge by forcing her to reveal

her trauma.

The recording circulated from Zoey's phone, leaving her defenseless.

Once again she was defenseless, just like when Belinda had framed her.

No one would believe a mother could schagainst her daughter to such an extent.

a girl would gamble her

that she could never escape the clutches

was being ruined by Belinda

was the one being

of even a shred

calm; she thought

Mia.

Sharon's hatred. People in jail have been briefed beforehand and, led by

daily.

couldn't help but

realized that she should never have

weep and plead Fitch to

already troubled by his journey,

remember Zoey didn't have her phone on

face paling, but she

gave it to her. She said she wanted to make a

yet

death upon Zoey; it made no sense she'd

down,

whole thing? You think I'd joke with my own honor? What

temples, and said

bully Zoey to vent your anger. You're my sister, I'm

cameras everywhere."

felt weak, and her

could she forget? Fitch was so methodical, and his house

he checked, he'd see that Zoey never touched

given it to her

silent, shaking

Sharon spoke up.

is your

sister that I've indulged