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.

that a girl would gamble her innocence in such a

Zoey to understand that she could never escape the

being ruined by

the one

destroyed, but devoid of even

was taken to the police station, her face was calm; she thought maybe staying in jail would be better than nannying

Mia.

had underestimated Sharon's hatred. People in jail have been briefed

daily.

cold floor, she couldn't help but wonder,

she should never have

hospital room, Mia continued to weep and plead Fitch to swear not to be

already troubled by his

didn't have her phone on

face paling, but she

it to her. She said she wanted

so much, yet you'd

death upon Zoey; it made no sense she'd comply with

down, with tears

saying I staged this whole thing? You think I'd joke with my own honor? What is Zoey? She deserves

massaged his temples, and said

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

cameras everywhere."

and

was so methodical, and his house was

that

Mia wouldn't have given it to her willingly; her

silent, shaking with

Sharon spoke up.

your sister,

because she's my sister that I've indulged her against