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.

Finnian a couple of times-once on their wedding day, and another a

came home, clearly disregarding her as his wife. She had always known that once

"Mrs. Everly?"

minutes of silence, Amara suddenly picked up a pen and signed her name

"No need."

pushed the divorce

Everlys initially approached her, they had compensated her generously, enough for her to live comfortably for the

life.

an infatuation that lasted eight years. Agreeing to marry him three years ago was just a way to

back home then." Keeping a woman

curled into a bitter smile, and she turned to head upstairs, holding back the tears threatening

"Ely, I'm divorced."

her friend Elysia Moon, who

"Yes."

Not coming home for three years was bad enough, but now

Hearing her friend's indignation,

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

she spoke. Even though

Amara, how could you be so

better than anyone how deeply Amara doved Finnian. Remembering all the things Amara had done for Finnian over the years, she felt it was all so

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