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.

Anyway, I gotta go. I have some things to work on, but I promise I’ll tell you more over the weekend when

returned my focus

into the back

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

he was just putting on a show, trying to

very sick.

old illness

ambulance sped away, the sound of its whirring fading as it

a daze until my phone rang, pulling me back to reality.

It was Soren!

remarry within the next 15 days, or I might run afoul of the adultery laws.

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

to clear the thought, and

now, isn’t it?” he asked

how he knew. This timing couldn’t have been a coincidence,

congratulate you on your liberation?”

my heart felt heavy.

you had a plan to

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