From Wife To Global Wonder Romane & Geschichten

An idea came to him, and he pointed at her. "Sh-She's my wife from the outside world!" he exclaimed. Victoria's temple throbbed when she heard that, and her brows furrowed. Being pointed at by Yves, Wendy was stunned. She looked at him and pointed at herself, dumbfounded. "I … I'm your wife? How … When …" Limping, Yves stood up as fast as he could and shuffled over to her. He put his weight on her. "Desperate time calls for desperate measures."

Adrian's POV The warrant exploded across my burner phone like shrapnel in the dead of night. Alerts piled up from the scraps of my network *International warrant issued. Murder-for-hire. Conspiracy with intent to defraud and kill.* Maribel. That pathetic, whining mess had survived, clawed her way back from the brink, and sung like a canary to save her own hide. I could picture her in that hospital bed, swollen and broken, spilling every secret I'd trusted her with. Ungrateful. Disposable.