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?"

was nowhere to be found. Hadn't she

house, only to find

turned stone-cold; a suspect

county police, rallying everyone to

with Queena missing. Could she really be

to the county,

was oblivious to the world around

opportunity to escape with

taking the keys.

belonged to her, and no

discovery of the bus driver's body in a drainage ditch, further confirming

to pursue by car, Abner

moment before leading her team to

cash amounting to ten thousand dollars and a bank card

own crew.

took off, chasing down

hide lan, drove aimlessly towards the

open lan's mouth, pushing a pill down his throat, then slit her

blood.

at the county's toll station, Queena's bus

and Rachel prepared to hand Queena over to the county police. That's when

the bus.

intent on hiding. When he saw lan's face,

who had disappeared

Beck's people still searching

Abner made the

"Abner?"

"We've found lan."

"Oh, what?"

his condition doesn't look good. I've got Queena

confused, not even sure who Queena was. He

them