Countdown to My Divorce

William unrolled the paper, and was shocked by the contents.

It was a divorce agreement.

He thought he was seeing things and had to look a few times before he was sure. Rachel had signed her name at the bottom of the paper. She didn’t want a single cent, and opted to leave the marriage without any alimony.

William picked up another piece of paper in the box, with a few words written on it.

[William, I can hear.]

William’s eyes widened; his fingers trembled, the paper falling out of his hand. It took a long time for him to recover from his shock.

His memories with Rachel replayed in his mind like scenes from a movie. Each time he called Samantha right in front of Rachel, his conversations with Samantha…

She had heard it all.

William went weak in his knees as he collapsed on the floor. His head was pounding, feeling as though it was going to implode any moment now.

He held his head in pain. He had never expected Rachel to have recovered her hearing so quickly.

She had been tolerating everything he had done all this time–she probably knew about his affair with Samantha long ago. She had been putting up a front all along, pretending to be understanding each time he defended Samantha, trusting all the excuses he made up.

his hand,

She didn’t even want to tell him all this

spend all their wedding anniversaries with him from

eyes were bloodshot as he felt a sharp pain in his chest,

a door open. The sound

he came to a halt in the living room. The glint of

moment.

when she saw how

“Why didn’t you pick

a daze, silent even in the

hard. “William, what….what happened to

paper in William’s

“What is this?”

shaken after reading its contents, her eyes wide open with

back? Is she

knew something was wrong the moment she asked those questions. The date on

turned to William with a look of surprise in her