Will You Marry Me, Again by Pear Heart

Chapter 22 Hate It When Women Cry

He frowned and grabbed her jaw. “Why? Should I let a kidnapper escape?”

“Kidnapper?” Maia gasped. “What on earth are you talking about?”

He tossed the box onto her, and its lid opened, revealing the voodoo doll.

“W–What is it?”

“Drop the act, will you?”

her heart pounded. She looked down at the doll and saw Rita’s name on it. Realization struck

kidnapped Rita? Cedric, I was with you last night, remember? I only found out about what happened when Zera called

wanted to spend the evening with me to have an alibi, right? And I’m the best

part of a scheme. For him, she could give up everything. Even now, when she was humiliated, she still loved him. Maia shook her head. “She killed our child, and I despise her, but I could never exact revenge because of you. I know how devastating it is to lose a

you…

soft that one could

me, but you’ve done countless disgraceful things behind

like she was about to cry. There had

went after Zera out of

old documents to help him secure a deal. She had tried to explain herself repeatedly,

I need to explain it all

“I’m such

on his fingers, he loosened his