Chapter 13 "It's all Fake"

"See? I was right!"

The air crackled with unspoken animosity as Marian swirled the ice cubes in her glass of chardonnay, the clinking echoing in the opulent in Blake's office room.

Marian rolled her eyes disdainfully. "She hasn't even been gone for long but already her true colors are showing. She's unable to support herself so now she's sucking up to you.

What she said about divorce is all fake!

"Blake didn't reply. He opened the package in his hand. A bank card fell out. And there was a divorce agreement already signed by Eva.

The crisp legal document, stark with its black and white lettering, felt heavy in Marian's hands. As she scanned the clauses, a cold dread seeped into her bones, chilling her from the inside out. The weight of the paper morphed in her grasp, transforming into a physical manifestation of the fracturing reality before her. When her gaze finally landed on the bold title screaming "Dissolution of Marriage," Marian's jaw slackened in a silent gasp, the carefully