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 been there a moment

quickly made their way to Queena's house, only to find

stone-cold; a suspect

the county police, rallying everyone to join the manhunt for

were uneasy with Queena missing. Could she really

boarded the bus heading to the county, taking the unconscious lan with

and was oblivious

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

taking the keys.

belonged to her, and

the bus

by car,

hesitated for just a moment before

Tobias with a stack of cash amounting to ten thousand dollars and a

own crew.

took off, chasing down

where to hide lan, drove aimlessly towards the

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

blood.

toll station,

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

the bus.

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

who had

searching for him in

made

"Abner?"

"We've found lan."

"Oh, what?"

bringing him back to Greenfield, but his condition doesn't look good. I've got Queena

not even sure who Queena was. He was impatient

them