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CHAPTER 3: The Papers
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2026-09-08 21:41:31Damian’s gaze remained fixed on Amelia.
Especially on the hand she had instinctively placed over her stomach.For one dangerous second, Amelia wondered if he knew.Then she lowered her hand.“What are you doing out here?” he asked.“Leaving.”
His expression hardened.“You’re coming home with me.”
Amelia almost smiled,home.That word sounded absurd coming from him.
“I don’t think I have a home there anymore.”
“You’re still my wife.”
“Am I?”Damian went silent.
Amelia stepped closer.“Because tonight, I watched my husband introduce another woman as the mother of his child.”His jaw tightened.“Sophia and I”
“I don’t want an explanation.”
“You should hear me out.”
“No.”Her answer was immediate.For once, Damian looked genuinely surprised.
Amelia had spent years listening to him.Tonight, he could listen to her.
“I’ve defended you when people called our marriage a joke. I’ve made excuses for your absence. I’ve sat alone at dinners because you were always too busy. I convinced myself that you were simply incapable of showing affection.”She swallowed.“But I was wrong.”
Damian stared at her.“You weren’t incapable of loving someone.”Her voice became quieter.
“You just didn’t love me.”Something shifted in his expression.
“Amelia”
“Don’t.”
She stepped back.“I’ve already embarrassed myself enough tonight.”She turned toward the car.“Wait.”
His voice stopped her.Damian reached into his jacket and pulled out a document.
He held it toward her.“Then let’s end it properly.”Amelia looked at the papers.
Her stomach dropped.Divorce papers.She had imagined this moment countless times.She had imagined Damian begging her to stay.
She had imagined him finally admitting that he loved her.She had imagined everything except this.A cold smile touched her lips.“You brought them tonight?”“I knew you’d eventually ask for a divorce.”
“No.”She looked directly into his eyes.
“You knew I’d eventually get tired.”
Damian didn’t respond.Amelia took the papers.
Her fingers trembled slightly.She flipped through the pages.Everything was already prepared.Property division,financial settlement,confidentiality agreement.It was painfully efficient.Just like Damian.Then she reached the final page.Her eyes stopped.
Marriage dissolution agreement.She pulled the pen from the folder.Damian watched her carefully.“You don’t have to sign tonight.”
Amelia looked up.“Why?”He hesitated.
“I don’t want you making a decision while you’re emotional.”She almost laughed.“That’s the first thing you’ve said tonight that sounds like concern.”His expression darkened.“Amelia.”She signed,one page,then another.
Finally, she placed the pen down.“There.”
Damian stared at her signature.
Something unreadable crossed his face.“You’re really doing this.”
“Yes.”
“After five years?”
“You ended our marriage tonight.”
His eyes lifted.
“I didn’t say that.”
“You didn’t have to.”
She handed the documents back.
Then she removed the small diamond bracelet he had given her on their third anniversary.She placed it on top of the papers.“I don’t want anything that came from you.”Damian looked at the bracelet.Then at her.“Where will you go?”Amelia paused.It was almost funny.After everything, that was what he wanted to know.
“Somewhere you can’t find me.”His expression changed.“You won’t disappear.”It wasn’t a question.Amelia smiled.“Watch me.”She walked toward the car.This time, Damian didn’t stop her.But just before she opened the door, his phone rang.He answered.“Yes?”
His assistant’s voice came through urgently.
“Sir, we have a problem.”Damian frowned.
“What problem?”
“The board discovered the old Carter account.”
Damian went completely still,His eyes shifted toward Amelia.“What did you say?”
“The Carter account. Someone accessed the files tonight.”His grip tightened around the phone.“Who?”
“We don’t know yet.”
A pause,then the assistant added quietly,“But whoever accessed it wasn’t looking for financial information.”Damian’s expression turned cold.“What were they looking for?”
“The marriage records.”
Amelia, who had only caught fragments of the conversation, turned around.Damian was already staring at her.
And for the first time that night, there was something dangerously close to fear in his eyes.Because someone had just reopened a secret their families had buried for five years.
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