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."

world tilted for

No.

No, that wasn't possible.

continued, her voice eerily calm now. "Of course, you didn't see me, but I was always in the background. Listening to you talk to her while

what the fuck are

closer to the bars, a twisted smile on her

"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

blood turned

hands curled into fists at my sides, rage boiling

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I swallowed hard, my voice

parted, her face

about moving to Texas. Sol did the research, found the right school, got the job-"

her way into

had kept Laura

myself to stay still, to not grab the

kind of victory. "She never should have

with barely contained fury.

She did.

ounce

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

Vivien's smile faltered.

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never love you. You were nothing but a distraction-a lie I told myself because I was too fucking

voice razor-sharp. "And nothing you do -nothing

Then I turned.

And I walked away.

behind me, raw

"Josh!"

I didn't stop.

"Josh, please!"

I kept walking.

"We belong together!"

my heart pounding so hard it felt like it might break

to get

to get to

1 My Boyfriends Getting

My Boyfriend's Getting Married, and It's Not

Sullivan, I agree

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

down.

gravelly

"Do

to you have any

what time it

glanced at her

call

"Okay."

"Huh?"

overseas tomorrow. I'll be back in about

Sonya

get

blind date. Millie described the guy as the grandson of Mrs. Alice Sullivan, their neighbor. Apparently, he was a straight-A student, graduated from a top university in Chicago, landed a high-paying job with great benefits, and even got bonuses on

blow 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 marry her. "Crazy

given her a chance to refuse. He just

it for the past two weeks. Yet,

phone and checked the trending news. It was still a

actress, Seraphina West, 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, stepped forward, proclaiming himself Seraphina's boyfriend and

of him proposing to Seraphina at her

swung wildly; fans and the

Impending Wedding to Julian Jennings. Sonya found the whole thing

was she? What were those eight years they'd spent together? She'd been a fool, and she was finally cutting her

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said, 'I want a life with my wife like most ordinary

but that was exactly the life she wanted, a life Julian wouldn't give her. After collecting herself, she packed her stuff. The mansion was Julian's;

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