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

that she could never escape

was being ruined by Belinda and

was the

but devoid of

to the police station, her face was calm;

Mia.

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

daily.

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

she should never have been

in Mia's hospital room, Mia continued to weep and plead Fitch to swear not to

already troubled by his journey,

have her phone on

stiffened, her face paling, but she

her. She

yet you'd lend

upon Zoey; it made

looked down,

you saying I staged this whole thing? You think I'd joke

massaged his temples, and

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

cameras everywhere."

and her head was

could she forget? Fitch was so methodical, and

he'd see that Zoey never

to her

silent,

Sharon spoke up.

your

sister that I've indulged