Under the Veil I Rule

Chapter 1

"Mrs. Everly, here are the divorce papers. Please have a look, and if everything's alright, just sign at the bottom."

Amara stared at the papers in front of her, feeling a buzzing silence in her mind that drowned out everything else.

"Mrs. Everly?"

Seeing her lost in thought, Will Zade waved a hand in front of her eyes to get her attention.

Snapping back to reality, Amara asked, one of bafflement, "Finnian wants to divorce me?"

Her face was partially hidden behind a mask, but her dewy eyes, filled with confusion and sadness, were visible. Will felt a pang of sympathy and looked away.

"Yes, Mr. Finnian Everly mentioned that with Mrs. Grace Everly's passing, there's no need to continue this marriage, so he wants to proceed with the divorce."

Amara felt a sharp pain in her heart, but it was accompanied by a strange sense of relief, as if a weight had finally been lifted off her shoulder.

Three years ago, to bring some joy to Grace in her final days, Amara, the second daughter of the Sullivan family, who had once been disfigured, married into the Everly family and became Finnian's wife.

she'd only seen Finnian a couple of times-once on their

her as his

"Mrs. Everly?"

silence, Amara suddenly picked up a pen and signed her

"No need."

capped the pen and pushed

Finnian was offering her. When the Everlys initially approached her, they had compensated her generously, enough for her to live comfortably for

life.

marrying Finnian had never been about money for her. She had liked Finnian since high school, an infatuation that lasted eight years. Agreeing to marry him three years ago was just a way to

of days? He can come back home then." Keeping a woman he didn't love at home and avoiding it for three years—it must have

lips curled into a bitter smile, and she turned to head

"Ely, I'm divorced."

by the window, calling her friend Elysia Moon, who sounded

"Yes."

home for three years was bad enough,

Hearing her friend's indignation,

me from the start that he was marrying me just to make Mrs. Grace

window sill tightly as she spoke. Even though she told herself to move

could you be

Amara's closest friend, Elysia knew better than anyone how deeply Amara doved Finnian. Remembering all the things Amara had done for Finnian over