I didn’t see it coming. One minute, the kids were laughing in the next room, the faint sounds of a cartoon echoing like a buffer against the silence pressing in between Ashton and me. And then, out of nowhere, he pulled a folder from his jacket pocket and set it down on the table between us. The sight of it punched the air out of me. My throat tightened. Even before I touched it, I knew what it was. I’d know those ivory covers anywhere.The divorce papers.The same ones that had ripped my world apart six years ago.My fingers trembled against the edge of the folder. Heat flooded my cheeks, my pulse racing as memories rushed in. Bloodshot eyes, nights spent crying on the bathroom floor, three babies screaming at once while I remembered the papers that severed me from the life I thought I once knew. The betrayal. The humiliation. The certainty that Ashton had cast me aside like I was nothing.My chair scraped hard against the floor as I shoved back, nearly knocking it over. “Yo
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