Marry My Ex's Sworn Enemy

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JOSH

The call came just as I was leaving practice.

"Mr. Saunders?"

"Yeah, this is him." I balanced my duffel on my shoulder, pushing open the car door.

"This is Officer Ruiz with the Austin PD. We have a woman in custody, Vivien, who listed you as her emergency contact."

I stopped mid-motion, gripping the door frame. "What?"

"She was picked up outside a coffee shop after causing a scene. Barista called it in-said she was aggressively confronting a blonde woman, screaming at her." The officer

hesitated. "She's requesting that you come down to the station.'

I clenched my jaw so tight I thought my teeth might crack.

"What does she want from me?"

"She's insisting that you validate her story. That she's not crazy."

I scrubbed a hand down my face. "Jesus Christ."

The drive to the station was a blur of anger and disbelief. I knew Vivien was struggling, but this? It was unhinged. I had a bad feeling in my gut, one that only grew worse when they led me down a hallway toward the holding cells. 0.00%

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"She's in here," the officer said, stopping in front of the cell.

Vivien was pacing. Back and forth, her arms folded tightly over her stomach. Her usually perfect raven hair was a mess, her makeup smudged like she had been crying for hours.

When I stepped inside, she froze. Her red-rimmed eyes snapped to mine, her face crumpling into desperate relief.

"Josh!" She lunged forward, stopping just short of the bars. "Tell them. Tell them I'm not crazy. That we love each other! That we're supposed to be a family!" Her voice cracked, her hands gripping the cold metal. I exhaled sharply, fighting the heat rising in my chest. "Vivien, what the hell is this?"

Her fingers curled tighter, her whole body shaking. "I worked so hard for us. Don't you see that?" Her voice grew frantic. "You just have to tell them, Josh! Tell them it's not made up! That I didn't make this up!" A thick silence stretched between us.

"What do you mean, you worked hard?" My voice was low, sharp.

Vivien started pacing again, her breaths erratic.

The officer beside me shifted uncomfortably, just as confused

as I was.

Then Vivien stopped.

She lifted her head, her dark eyes glistening with something unhinged.

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"Don't you recognize me?" she whispered.

A chill slid down my spine.

"What?"

"I was there." A breathy laugh escaped her lips. "I was the nurse."

tilted for

No.

No, that wasn't possible.

was always in the background. Listening to you talk to her while I knew she wasn't really there. She wasn't coming back to

lurched. "Vivien... what the fuck are you

closer to the bars, a twisted smile on

memory. "Sure, sure... I gave her a little sedation at the beginning. Just to make sure she didn't wake up. But that was only once to twice...I think." She nodded frantically. "Only that one dose almost stopped her breathing,

turned ice

into fists at my sides, rage boiling under my

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I swallowed hard, my voice

her face

you," she whispered, ignoring my question. "I heard you tell your sister you were thinking about moving to Texas. Sol did the research, found the right school, got the job-" She let out a small, breathy laugh. "It

had stalked me. Manipulated her way into my life.

Laura in a

body tensed, every muscle coiling like a live wire. I forced myself to stay still, to not grab the bars and

was some kind of

voice shaking with barely contained fury. "Vivien-look at

She did.

let her see every ounce of rage burning in my

deadly quiet, "hear me now-I

Vivien's smile faltered.

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I said, stepping even closer. "I will never love you. You were nothing but a distraction-a lie I told myself because I was too fucking broken to face the truth." Her chin

I said, my voice razor-sharp. "And nothing you do -nothing you say-will ever

Then I turned.

And I walked away.

behind me,

"Josh!"

I didn't stop.

"Josh, please!"

I kept walking.

"We belong together!"

heart pounding so hard it felt

to get

to

1 My Boyfriends Getting

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agree to

the call, Sonya Ella downed half a bottle of vodka, the kind that burned

down.

other end. Then, she heard a gravelly voice laced

"Do

to you have any

time

at her phone. It

I'll call you

"Okay."

"Huh?"

trip overseas tomorrow. I'll be back in about

Sonya

get

ago, her aunt Millie Williams, back in her small hometown, called to set her up on a blind date. Millie described the guy as the grandson of Mrs. Alice Sullivan, their neighbor.

it off later. But that night, he called. He said he didn't have time for dating, and even less for a relationship. If she agreed, he wanted to skip all that and

to refuse. He just

she hadn't thought about it for

opened her phone and checked the

to be pregnant, and the father was a married, Oscar-winning actor. Shortly after Seraphina was branded a "home-wrecker," the heir to the Jennings family, Julian Jennings,

him proposing to Seraphina at her recent

wildly; fans and the public alike sent their

Seraphina West's Impending Wedding to Julian Jennings. Sonya found the whole

Julian's girlfriend, what was she? What were those eight years they'd

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because he'd once said, 'I want a life with my wife like most ordinary couples-mutual

herself, she packed her stuff. The mansion was Julian's; she needed to

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