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?"

that they realized Queena was nowhere to be found. Hadn't she just been there a moment

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

suspect

the county police, rallying everyone to join the manhunt for

were uneasy with Queena missing. Could she really

heading to the county, taking the unconscious lan with

and was oblivious to the world around

she drove. She had seized the opportunity to escape with the town's

taking the keys.

her, and

the discovery of the bus driver's body in

about to pursue by car, Abner suggested,

moment before

ten thousand dollars and a bank card before taking off

own crew.

took off, chasing

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

her no choice. She forced open lan's mouth, pushing a pill down his

blood.

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

prepared to hand Queena

the bus.

was so intent on hiding. When he saw lan's

the man who had disappeared

people still searching for

Abner made

"Abner?"

"We've found lan."

"Oh, what?"

his condition doesn't look good. I've

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

bring them back,