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.

times-once on their wedding

her as his

"Mrs. Everly?"

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

"No need."

pushed

her, they had compensated her generously, enough for her to

life.

Finnian since high school, an infatuation that

home then." Keeping a woman he didn't love at home and avoiding it for three years—it must have been tough for

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

"Ely, I'm divorced."

friend Elysia Moon, who sounded

"Yes."

for three

Hearing her friend's indignation,

from the start that he was marrying me just to

though she told herself to move on,

could you be so silly?" Elysia

the things Amara had done for Finnian