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.

clenched the divorce papers in his hand,

already planning to disappear from his life. She didn’t even want to tell him all this

promise to spend all their wedding anniversaries with him from

in his arms bulging. His eyes were bloodshot as he felt a sharp pain in his chest, as if someone was

open. The sound made him jump and run toward

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

moment.

with William when she saw how pale

approached him. “Why didn’t you pick up my

even in the

shook William hard. “William, what….what

the paper

“What is this?”

thoroughly shaken after reading its contents, her eyes

back?

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

look of surprise in her