Semua Bab Once Divorced, Twice Desired: Bab 61 - Bab 63

The words landed like a slap on Zara's cheeks, sharp and stinging.A ringing noise filled her ears, drowning out everything else. Her breath caught, her fingers tightening around the file so hard her knuckles turned white.Hot tears burned at the back of her eyes, but she refused to let them fall.Ethan was there. She remembered it so clearly—the hospital, the exhaustion, the moment the nurse had placed the papers in his hands.“He told me he signed them.” Her voice was barely above a whisper. “He was right there. He told me he did it.”They were still very in love back then. Ethan wouldn't betray her like that, right? “In his defence, he was going to sign it. I stopped him.” Zara bit her lower lip hard, as she tried to hide her tears. He was capable enough to play two women at the same time. And yet the one time she desperately needed him to protect her, he failed.Her hate for Ethan deepened, but she didn't let that tears fall. Not for them. “So, are you ready to strike a deal?”

MONDAYZara sat in front of her lap, dark bags under her eyes and her mind far away from the confinement of the office room. She closed her eyes briefly, and her mind flashed back to the previous day. After she finished her practice with Damien, she had gone to the farm house again, this time a little more careful. Everything was intact as she had left them. She went back down the secret room tracing her steps back to what she tripped on on her first arrival.When she raised the lid, she realized her guess was right. It was indeed a metal vault embedded on the floor.Curiosity outweighed fear, and she’d pressed her thumb against the scanner.Click.Inside was a small leather-bound book wrapped tightly in a black cloth. She had unwrapped it. Inside was a hardcover book with a title clearly ascribed to the front in gold ink; The Book of Life and Death.Her breath caught, “What the hell?” She muttered underneath her breath. The title unsettled her, piquing her curiosity. She sat