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!"

me. I can heal you, really, I can make

her single-minded

With a swift

Maja with long strides. As he

to take

one single

was reminded of a similar reprimand when Maja

wave of dizziness, especially when the scent of Queena lingered

to drive him

"Maja!"

again, biting his tongue to stay

She shook him off,

car.

gone

more to hold her hand, "It's

and he fought the urge to scratch at his itchy

Maja into an embrace. "Beck will explain, it's not what you

her voice hoarse.

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

"lan?"

terribly wrong; his

where Beck's people arrived promptly, taking

murder, Queena was sentenced to death, never to be

had dropped back to Greenfield Gardens, but by then, lan had fainted, stirring the household into

action.

quickly and had to break the

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