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.

three years, she'd only seen Finnian a couple of times-once

disregarding her as his wife. She had always known that once Grace passed, a divorce would

"Mrs. Everly?"

up a pen and signed her name decisively. Will quickly reminded her, "You haven't

"No need."

the pen and pushed the divorce papers

much money Finnian was offering her. When the Everlys initially approached her, they had compensated her generously, enough

life.

money for her. She had liked Finnian since high school, an infatuation that lasted eight years. Agreeing to marry him three

in the next couple of days? He can come back home then." Keeping a woman he

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

"Ely, I'm divorced."

her friend Elysia Moon, who sounded

"Yes."

could he be so heartless! Not coming home for three years was bad enough, but now he

Hearing her friend's indignation,

pressed her lips together. "It's no big deal, He told me from the start that he was marrying me just

as she spoke. Even though she told herself to move on,

how could you be

Amara doved Finnian. Remembering all the things Amara had done for Finnian over the years, she