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.

always in the background.

"Vivien... what the fuck

step closer to the bars, a

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, so I didn't

blood turned ice

fists at my

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my voice like

her

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 was

way into my life. Into my daughter's

Laura

body tensed, every muscle coiling like a live wire. I forced myself to stay still, to

some kind of victory. "She never

with barely contained

She did.

see every ounce

my wife," I said, my voice deadly quiet, "hear me now-I will make sure you never see the

Vivien's smile faltered.

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you," 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

"And nothing you do -nothing you say-will ever

Then I turned.

And I walked away.

voice cracked behind me, raw and

"Josh!"

I didn't stop.

"Josh, please!"

I kept walking.

"We belong together!"

through the doors, my heart pounding so

needed to

to

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a bottle of

down.

she heard a gravelly voice laced with undisguised irritation. Clearly, he was roused from

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to you have any

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glanced at her phone. It was

call you

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leaving for a business trip overseas tomorrow. I'll be back in about a month. We'll married

up, Sonya felt

get

guy as the grandson of Mrs. Alice

dating, and even less for a relationship. If she agreed, he wanted to skip all that and marry her.

given her a chance to refuse. He just

it for the past two weeks.

opened her phone and checked the

was rumored 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,

proposing to Seraphina at her

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topic remained: Seraphina West's Impending Wedding to

years they'd spent together? She'd been

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he'd once said, 'I want a life with my wife like most

wouldn't give her. After collecting herself, she packed her stuff. The mansion

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