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Chapter 2: The Roommate Mix-up A few weeks later…“Sign here and we'll be done with this.” My hand moved immediately, scribbling my signature on the divorce papers in front of me. My soon-to-be ex-husband, Austin Lowell, sat across from me. His face a mask of guilt and shame. The scar on his brow? My best work so far. I've known him for nine years since our college days and we've been married for five years. But all that was gone now. The bastard betrayed me. I slid the fountain pen across the table and swallowed the lump in my throat. “That's everything, right?” Austin looked up from his phone and gave a stiff nod, “My lawyer will file it before noon.” I hated how composed he was in that darn charcoal suit. As if he never hurt me. As if we didn't spend many nights naming our imaginary children. I picked up my purse and stood to leave. “I'll be leaving first.” He got up too. And for the first time since today, looked me in the eye. “Rena, I'm truly sorry for what I did. I ne

Chapter 4: I See Red. Austin Lowell, you messed with the wrong woman. Today, Austin was going to be smiling and spewing lies through his crooked front teeth at Senator Grant Whitmore's press conference after tarnishing my image and reputation the way he did? Absolutely fucking not. Not if I can help it. My car's speed limit had gone in the red and I was deaf to Uncle Marcus's calls that came every two seconds. I'd forgotten he said he was dropping by today. Well, I'm not picking up until I've done what I have in mind. Knowing my uncle, he's only going to try and convince me not to. Hell no. Because of that sorry excuse for a man, I spent the whole night explaining everything to a confused Raymond, over the phone at three in the morning. It was all a huge lie crafted by his wife and my ex-husband to make themselves seem like the victims. Austin had gone on national media, painted me as the villain, claimed I had slept with my cousin’s husband? The audacity. The evil.The worst