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Divorce Papers & Ultrasound

ผู้เขียน: Amelia Hart
last update ปรับปรุงล่าสุด: 2025-12-10 16:03:48

The morning after, I wake up in Alexander Kane’s guest wing at 6:14 a.m. The bed is arctic-white, ten-thousand-thread-count, and feels like a crime scene because I actually slept.

There’s a single white rose on the pillow beside me. No note. Just the flower, dewy and perfect, like it grew there overnight.

I’m still staring at it when my phone buzzes on the nightstand.

Unknown number. San Francisco prefix.

I answer.

“Mrs. Whitford?” A nervous male voice, Theo’s lawyer. “Mr. Whitford would like to finalise the divorce today. He’s at the penthouse if you’re available to sign.”

I hang up without replying and text Alexander one word: Now.

He’s in the kitchen thirty seconds later, hair wet from his own shower, black T-shirt clinging to places I refuse to catalogue. He reads my face and doesn’t ask questions.

“Want me to come up?”

“No. I want you to wait in the car. If I’m not down in twenty minutes, come get me.”

He nods once. “Take the obsidian letter-opener. Just in case.”

I almost smile.
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