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.

would one believe that a girl would gamble her innocence in such a

a few slaps for Zoey to understand that she could never escape the

life was being ruined by Belinda

the one

just destroyed, but devoid of even a shred of

police station, her face was calm; she thought maybe staying

Mia.

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

daily.

floor, she couldn't help but wonder, where had her

realized that she should never have been

now, in Mia's hospital room, Mia continued to weep and plead Fitch

by his

remember Zoey didn't have her phone on

her face paling, but she quickly

it to her. She said she

her so much, yet

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

down,

this whole thing? You think I'd joke with

his temples, and

my sister, I'm on your side,

cameras everywhere."

felt weak, and her

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

that Zoey

given it to her willingly; her claim

fell silent,

Sharon spoke up.

is your sister, after

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