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 gamble her innocence in

Zoey to understand that she could never escape the clutches

was being ruined by

was the one

but devoid of even a shred of

she was taken to the police station, her face was calm; she thought maybe staying in

Mia.

been briefed

daily.

on the cold floor, she couldn't help but

realized that she should

weep and plead Fitch to swear not to be

troubled by his journey,

remember Zoey didn't have her phone

face paling, but

to her. She said

her so much, yet you'd lend her your

wished death upon Zoey; it made no

looked down,

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

temples, and said

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

cameras everywhere."

and her head was

so methodical,

he checked, he'd see that Zoey never touched the

Mia wouldn't have given it to

fell silent, shaking

Sharon spoke up.

your

my sister that I've