Dear Ex-wife Marry Me by Twin Bridge

Pregnant and confined to the quietude of her home, Maja dared not inquire about the whereabouts of her husband, lan. Yet, while

she nursed her solitude, he was out gallivanting with other women, even neglecting to return to their shared abode in Greenfield

Gardens.

A surge of fury bolted through Maja from the soles of her feet, clouding her judgment with a haze of blind rage.

She stormed up to them just as lan shoved Queena aside. Maja's hand flew, striking him with a resounding slap.

"Smack!"

There she stood, her chest heaving tumultuously, her eyes catching Queena imploring, "lan, can we just leave together, please?"

The slap almost sent lan, still recovering from a recent illness, into unconsciousness.

Upon recognizing Maja, panic flared in his eyes. "Maja?"

Words swirled in her mind, a tempest of accusations and pain, but faced with the stark reality before her, what could she possibly

say?

She had imagined the missing man was faithful, but here he was, keeping another woman. Seeing was believing, after all.

Taking a deep breath, Maja turned on her heel and walked away.

lan staggered after her, "Maja!"

"Maja, it's not what you think!"

clung to his arm, desperate. "lan, cwith me. I can

sanity was frayed, her single-minded goal

expression darkened, his face ashen. With

he pursued Maja with long

instructing him to take Queena

you keep an eye on one single woman, Beck? Are you

reminded of a similar reprimand when Maja

felt a wave of dizziness, especially when the scent of Queena lingered on him, an itch so unbearable

drive him

"Maja!"

again, biting his tongue to stay

static. She shook him off, her eyes

car.

gone so terribly

once more to hold her hand,

the urge to scratch at his itchy neck,

into an embrace. "Beck will explain,

hoarse. "What do

standing there, his chin resting in her hair, his whole body

"lan?"

sensed something was terribly wrong; his shaking was

Beck's people arrived promptly, taking Queena

Queena was sentenced to death, never to

brought the gifts lan had dropped back to Greenfield Gardens, but by then, lan had fainted,

action.

an antidote quickly and had to break the

can do. If he can't get Queena's blood, his dependency on her will wane and eventually