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!"

to his arm, desperate. "lan, cwith me. I can heal you, really,

sanity was frayed, her single-minded goal to

face ashen. With a swift motion, he knocked

the two dozen shopping bags in his hands, he pursued Maja with long strides. As he

him to take Queena

one

a similar reprimand when Maja

lan felt a wave of dizziness, especially when the scent of Queena lingered on him, an

to drive him

"Maja!"

again, biting his tongue to

buzzing with indignant static. She shook him off, her eyes brimming with tears

car.

had things gone

hold her hand, "It's not what

scratch at his itchy neck, knowing he'd draw blood if he gave

into an embrace. "Beck will explain, it's

hoarse. "What

another word, standing there, his chin resting in her hair,

"lan?"

was terribly wrong; his shaking

back to Greenfield Gardens, where Beck's people arrived promptly, taking Queena to

murder, Queena was sentenced

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

action.

antidote quickly and had to break the

get Queena's blood, his dependency on her will wane and eventually vanish.