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?"

realized Queena was nowhere to be found. Hadn't she just been there

way to Queena's house, only to find it empty, the doctor

stone-cold; a suspect on the run often

the county police, rallying everyone to join the

were uneasy with Queena missing. Could she really be the

heading to the county,

oblivious to the world around

She had seized the opportunity to escape with

taking the keys.

her, and

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

by car, Abner suggested,

for just a moment before leading

to ten thousand

own crew.

off, chasing down Queena's

desperate and unsure where to hide lan, drove aimlessly towards the county. But the

pushing a pill down his throat, then slit her palm and

blood.

at the county's toll

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

the bus.

so intent on

who had disappeared from Cania be

people 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 story

confused, not even sure who Queena was. He was impatient

bring them back,