Chapter 189

I returned to my car after bidding Ash goodbye.

I was stewing in a swirl of emotions—happy, but also uneasy. I felt both relieved and worried,

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I decided to call my grandmother to share the news. But as the call connected, I noticed an ambulance hurrying toward the building.

“Yeah. The court case… Edward at least knew when to let go We’re divorced,” I muttered.

My grandmother let out a sigh of relief and Launched into a long–winded speech that I barely registered. My attention had drifted outside the window.

Paramedics were carrying Edward on a stretcher.

Sally trailed behind them, but as she descended the stairs, she lost her footing and stumbled forward. A paramedic quickly helped her up.

I recoiled, startled by the sight of her fall.

have some things to work on, but I promise I’ll

my focus to

hooked to an oxygen tank. As soon as he was loaded into the back of the ambulance, the

had to be assisted into the ambulance. I could tell, even from here, that she’d been crying

was just putting on a show, trying to guilt–trip me. But now, everything pointed to it being

seemed very sick.

old illness have returned?

sound of its whirring fading as

a daze until my phone rang, pulling

It was Soren!

Ash’s words came back to me–I couldn’t remarry within the next

thinking about that? I wasn’t thinking about marrying Soren…

trying to clear the thought, and answered the

now, isn’t it?”

how he knew. This timing couldn’t have been

you on your liberation?”

felt heavy. “How did you know?”

had a plan

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