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.

was there," she 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 I knew

stomach lurched. "Vivien... what

closer to the bars, a twisted

she was lost in a 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, so I didn't do it again,"

blood turned

into fists at my sides, rage boiling

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swallowed hard, my voice like gravel. "You drugged

parted, her face slack

heard 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.

way into my

kept Laura

forced myself to stay still, to not grab the bars and shake

smiled like this was some kind of victory. "She never

voice shaking with barely contained fury. "Vivien-look

She did.

her see every ounce of

you hurt my wife," I said, my voice deadly quiet,

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

said, my voice razor-sharp. "And nothing you

Then I turned.

And I walked away.

behind me, raw

"Josh!"

I didn't stop.

"Josh, please!"

I kept walking.

"We belong together!"

heart pounding so

needed to get

needed to

1 My

My Boyfriend's Getting Married, and

Sullivan, I agree to

a

down.

silence at the other end. Then, she heard a gravelly

"Do

to you have any

what time

hadn't checked. She glanced at her phone. It was

call you

"Okay."

"Huh?"

for a business trip overseas tomorrow. I'll be

up, Sonya felt

get

on a blind date. Millie described the guy as the grandson of Mrs. Alice Sullivan,

dating, and even less

refuse. He just said she could think about

she hadn't thought about it for the past two weeks. Yet,

her phone and checked the trending

a "home-wrecker," the heir to the Jennings family,

at her recent birthday party. He went down on one knee, asking her to

and the public alike

trending topic remained: Seraphina West's Impending Wedding to

those eight years they'd

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marry Henry Sullivan because he'd once said, 'I want a life with my wife like most

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

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