Dear Ex-wife Marry Me by Twin Bridge

Rachel watched as the local coroner, accompanied by a few somber-faced deputies, gently moved Jackson's body onto a stretcher.

The air was thick with the scent of pine and tragedy as the coroner began his grim examination.

Abner, his face shadowed by the brim of his baseball cap, spoke up from the sidelines. "Check Phoebe too, will ya? Maybe there's

something fishy about her death as well."

Rachel shot him a glance, her green eyes sharp, but this tshe didn't object.

The results cback faster than anyone expected: both deaths were eerily similar, a fatal puncture to the brain with a sharp

needle.

Tobias, pale as the moon and only eleven years old, suddenly choked on his tears, his voice breaking the heavy silence. "It was

Queena. I saw her touch Phoebe's head, and then she just fell over. Queena's the killer."

His words were met with immediate disbelief. After all, Queena wasn't just anyone; she was the town's sole doctor, a woman of

education who had studied abroad.

Voices rose up in protest.

"Cut the kid sslack, he doesn't know what he's saying. Queena just treated his dad's injury last week!"

"Yeah, and why would she harm your dad, kiddo? They had no beef."

"Tobias, you're heartless! Has Queena ever been anything but kind to you?"

Tobias shrank back, suddenly unsure. It was true, Queena had always been good to him. But ever since Phoebe's incident, he'd

grown afraid of her.

Rachel, sensing the shift in the crowd, raised her hand for silence. Her gaze swept over the townsfolk. "Where's Queena?"

nowhere to be found. Hadn't she just

quickly made their way to Queena's house, only to find it empty, the doctor gone without

stone-cold; a suspect

rallying everyone

Queena missing. Could

boarded the bus heading to the county, taking the unconscious lan with her. He had

several injections and was oblivious

was icy as she drove. She had seized the opportunity

taking the keys.

lan belonged to her,

soon led to the discovery of the bus driver's body in a drainage

about to pursue by car, Abner suggested, "Take the

before leading

cash amounting to ten thousand

own crew.

took off, chasing down Queena's

and unsure where to hide lan, drove aimlessly towards the

mouth, pushing a pill down his throat,

blood.

toll station, Queena's bus was

Rachel prepared to hand Queena over to the county

the bus.

intent on hiding. When he saw lan's face, he couldn't

who had disappeared from

still searching

Abner made

"Abner?"

"We've found lan."

"Oh, what?"

to Greenfield, but his condition doesn't look good. I've got Queena too; her

sure who Queena was.

them back,