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?"

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

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

suspect on the

tcontacting the county police, rallying everyone to join the manhunt

with Queena missing. Could she really be the

bus heading to the county, taking the

and was oblivious to the world

seized the opportunity to

taking the keys.

her, and no one

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

was about to pursue by car, Abner

moment before leading

left Tobias with a stack of cash amounting to ten thousand dollars and a bank card before taking off with

own crew.

helicopters took off, chasing down Queena's

hide lan, drove aimlessly towards the county. But the

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

blood.

the county's toll station,

and Rachel prepared to hand Queena over

the bus.

person Queena was so intent on hiding. When he saw lan's face, he couldn't believe

could the man who had disappeared from Cania be

Beck's people still searching for

made

"Abner?"

"We've found lan."

"Oh, what?"

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

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

them