All Chapters of He Divorced Me On Our Anniversary: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

16 Chapters

1. Our Anniversary Contract

Lena's POVI had been planning this evening for weeks, every detail carefully thought out. Today was our first wedding anniversary, and I wanted it to be perfect. Not because I needed it to be perfect for him, but because I wanted him to feel loved. We had been together since we were kids and now married for a year, I thought we were solid. I thought love meant we were unshakable.Maya had helped me plan. She insisted on a little celebration at home, intimate, just us. She reminded me to make his favorite dishes, even though I had already planned it. Roast with garlic and rosemary, mashed potatoes, his favorite chocolate cake for dessert. I smiled at the thought of him tasting it, laughing when I joked about burning it last time. It would be perfect, I told myself.The apartment was quiet, the lights low soft music playing. I checked the table one last time. Candles flickered wine glasses gleamed, everything exactly how I imagined. My heart beat a little faster as I imagined him walki

Last Updated : 2025-12-22

2. Sign Here

Lena's POVI sat at the table, staring at the envelope. My hands didn’t shake. Not yet. Ethan leaned back against the counter, his eyes boring into mine, calm, calculating, like he already knew I would give in. Ryan stood behind him arms crossed that infuriating smirk on his face.“Twenty minutes,” Ethan said. His voice was quiet but sharp. “Sign it Or we’re done here.”I raised an eyebrow. “Twenty minutes? That’s generous of you.”“You’re testing me,” he said. His tone carried the edge of someone who believed they were in control.I didn’t answer. I just picked up my phone. Maya’s texts were already there. Stay calm. Don’t let him scare you. You are stronger than this. I read them quickly, my fingers tightening around the phone.“You really think I’m going to beg?” I asked, looking at him. My voice was steady, even though my chest throbbed. “You really think I’ll whimper over some papers?”Ethan didn’t flinch. “I don’t think, Lena. I know.”Ryan let out a quiet laugh. “Just sign it,”

Last Updated : 2025-12-22

3. I Left That Night

Lena's POVI closed the bedroom door quietly like the sound alone might shatter me if it was to loud. The house felt different now. Too big too silent. It had never felt like a mansion before. It had been our home. Our space. Our beginning. Tonight it felt like a stranger watching me fall apart.I didn’t turn on all the lights. I didn’t need to see everything. I already knew this room. I knew every corner every drawer, every place where a memory waited to ambush me. I went straight to the closet and pulled out a suitcase. Not the expensive one we bought together. The old one from before I became Ethan’s wife. The one that still smelled faintly like airports and freedom.My hands started shaking the moment I opened the wardrobe.His shirts hung neatly on one side mine on the other. Colors I had chosen because he liked them. Dresses I wore to events where I stood beside him and smiled while the world called us perfect. I pressed my lips together and reached for a sweater. Just a sweater

Last Updated : 2025-12-22

4. The Silence She Left Behind

Ethan's POVI woke up knowing something was wrong.It wasn’t noise that pulled me from sleep. It was the lack of it. The house was too quiet, the kind of quiet that presses against your chest and makes it hard to breathe. Lena was never silent in the mornings. She moved softly, yes, but she existed. I always felt her before I saw her.I reached out without opening my eyes.The bed was empty.Cold.My eyes snapped open and I sat up, irritation flickering first. She was angry. That was it. She was making a point. Lena had always been stubborn when she was hurt. I ran a hand over my face and exhaled hard.“Lena,” I called.Nothing.The irritation shifted into something sharper. Unease. I swung my legs off the bed and stood. Her pillow was gone. Not tossed aside. Gone. That made my chest tighten.I moved into the bathroom. Empty counters. No makeup. No toothbrush. Even her hair ties were missing. The mirror reflected a man who suddenly didn’t look in control anymore.“No,” I muttered.I w

Last Updated : 2025-12-22

5. A New Beginning That Hurt to Breathe

Lena's POVThe plane touched down and for a moment I forgot how to breathe.Not because I was scared of flying. Because this was real now. This was not a threat or a plan or a maybe. I had left Los Angeles behind. I had left Ethan Blackwood behind. The man with black hair and green eyes and tattoos that once made me feel safe when his arms wrapped around me now lived only in memory.I stayed seated long after others stood. My hands were clenched in my lap. My chest hurt in a dull steady way that had nothing to do with the flight. I had no family waiting for me. No arms to fall into. No safety net.Just me.I picked up my bag and stepped off the plane.The airport was small. Quiet. Nothing like the chaos I was used to. No flashing lights. No luxury lounges. No assistants rushing around. Just tired travelers and locals who nodded politely and minded their own business.Good.I needed invisible.Outside the air smelled different. Salt. Cold. Clean. The ocean wasn’t far. I could feel it e

Last Updated : 2025-12-22

6. I Won’t Let Her Go

Ethan's POVI couldn’t breathe. I couldn’t think. I couldn’t do anything but stare at the empty space in our mansion where she should have been. Lena. The thought of her name burned in my chest, sharp and relentless, making my stomach twist in knots. I had made her sign those papers. I had done it with a calm, cold voice, telling myself it was power. Control. But that control had crumbled the instant she left, leaving nothing but echoes and silence.I grabbed my phone, not thinking, dialing numbers at random. Airports, hotels, flight operators. Anyone. everywhere. Every operator who answered my frantic voice, every receptionist who heard my sharp, demanding tone, I begged them to give me a clue. A hint. Anything. And every single call ended the same way: not available, no records, no trace.“No,” I shouted, throwing the phone against the wall. It bounced once, then fell silent. I felt my hands shake uncontrollably. How could she disappear? How could someone I knew so intimately, someo

Last Updated : 2026-01-02

7. Settling In

Lena's POVI woke to the sound of waves crashing against the shore, the morning sunlight spilling through the small curtains of my apartment. My body ached in ways I hadn’t realized it could every muscle stiff, my eyes swollen and raw from hours of crying the night before my throat was sore, my chest heavy and I felt as if the world had been pressing down on me, suffocating me with memories and grief.I didn’t move immediately. I lay on my side, staring at the ceiling letting the quiet rhythm of the ocean seep into my bones. The night had been long and merciless. Packing my few belongings, leaving everything behind, saying goodbye to the life I had built with him it had drained me in a way nothing else ever had. I had expected pain, but I had not expected this raw hollow exhaustion that clung to me like a second skin.Lena, you are alive. You are here. You are free.The thought should have brought relief, but instead, it felt strange. Free, yes, but alone. Completely, irrevocably alon

Last Updated : 2026-01-02

8. First job

Lena's POVI woke to the sound of gulls crying overhead and the soft rhythm of waves hitting the pier. My body was heavy my muscles sore from the tension I hadn’t even realised I was holding. My eyes were puffy still red from crying most of the night, my throat raw, my chest tight. I stayed lying there for a few moments, staring at the ceiling, trying to convince myself that this was real. That I had really come here. That I had really left him, left everything, and was standing on the edge of something completely unknown.Getting out of bed felt like lifting a weight I couldn’t see but I forced myself to move. I had made it this far. I had left Los Angeles, flown across states, and landed in this small coastal town. I couldn’t let exhaustion or heartbreak hold me back any longer. Not today.I had spent most of yesterday exploring, walking along the pier, and finding small apartments I could afford. On a whim, I had walked past a little café tucked between a bookstore and a flower sho

Last Updated : 2026-01-04

9. Unexpected Encounter

Lena's POVThe morning air was sharp with the scent of the sea as I walked toward the pier my shoes crunching on the gravel path. The sun had barely rose above the horizon painting the sky in soft pastels of pink and gold. I had decided to take a walk before work hoping the walk and the fresh air would help clear my mind. My thoughts of course drifted to him. Ethan. His green eyes the way he had handed me those papers the way he had made me feel like I didn’t matter. I shook my head slightly trying to push the memory away but it clung to me like a stubborn shadow.As I neared the edge of the pier, I noticed a figure working on one of the small fishing boats rolling gently in the tide. He was tall and broad-shouldered, wearing a faded navy sweatshirt and a worn cap that shaded his face. The scent of salt and fish hit me before I even saw him clearly, and I wrinkled my nose slightly.“Morning,” he called out without looking up. His voice was rough but there was a warmth to it that made

Last Updated : 2026-01-05

10. The First Call

Ethan's POVI hadn’t slept not even for a minute. The mansion was quiet, the kind of silence that made my thoughts feel like screaming in my head. I kept pacing back and forth, running my hands through my black hair and my green eyes burning with exhaustion and frustration. Every time I closed my eyes, I saw her. Lena. Her blue eyes, her blond hair, the way she used to look at me. And then the papers. That moment on our anniversary, the cold stack of destruction she’d been handed instead of a gift.I had divorced her. I ws the one that ended it. But my body, my heart it haven't gotten the memo. I didn’t want this. I didn’t want her gone. And not knowing where she was, not knowing if she was safe, if she was alone, if she was crying like I was, was driving me insane.I stopped pacing and grabbed my phone staring at her number, my thumb trembling over it. I couldn’t call her. I couldn’t. I didn’t know what I would say, and I didn’t know what I wanted. I only knew that I had to do someth

Last Updated : 2026-01-05

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