All Chapters of Fourteen Days Until Divorce: Chapter 1 - Chapter 6

“Sign the divorce papers.”The words struck Venus like lightning in broad daylight.In her hands, she was holding the results of her latest medical examination—proof that she was pregnant, barely three weeks long. She had planned to tell her husband the news that very day, to turn it into a surprise meant to change everything.Instead…Jupiter handed her divorce papers.“B–but… why?” Venus stared at him; her eyes locked onto his face. She clenched the documents tightly, as if the pressure could hide the shock crashing through her chest.Jupiter, who had been sitting behind his desk, slowly stood and walked toward her. “Do you remember when I asked you about the man in the photograph hanging on the wall of your family home?”Venus nodded. There was no way she could forget their visit to her parents’ house in MeriLand a week ago. She had been confused then—why Jupiter asked in such detail about the man in that photo. When she questioned him, he had chosen silence.“To this day,” Jupiter

“You’ll be okay, my child,” Venus whispered softly, unconsciously brushing her palm over her still-flat stomach.In the quiet bedroom, her gaze returned to the pregnancy test results lying on the bedside table. That thin sheet of paper felt unbearably heavy. Earlier that afternoon, when the doctor had delivered the news with a warm smile, Venus’s world had seemed to stop spinning. There had been a rush of emotion she couldn’t breathe through—joy that filled her chest, gratitude too deep for words, and a tenderness that made her heart ache.She was pregnant.Carrying Jupiter’s child.Ever since she left the doctor’s office, the only thing on her mind had been her husband’s face. She had wanted to rush home. Wanted to show him the results and tell him that their love now had a tangible formal life growing from the affection they shared.But reality chose a different path.Venus squeezed her eyes shut. Tears slid down her cheeks once more, unstoppable.“Why is this happening to me?” Her

“You know, my child,” Venus said with a faint smile. In her hands, she looked through the photos she had taken during their date earlier. “Your father is very handsome. I hope you inherit that from him.”Her hand returned to her still-flat stomach, the movement soft and careful, as if she were afraid of hurting the small life growing inside her.Venus wasn’t lying when she praised Jupiter Shaw.To the world, Jupiter was a man of authority—firm, distant, cold, and hard to approach. But to Venus, her husband’s handsomeness wasn’t found only in the sharp line of his jaw or the intensity of his gaze. Jupiter was handsome in the way he quietly watched over her. In how he always stayed one step ahead. In how he protected her without ever needing to say much.Venus remembered how Jupiter always made sure she got home safely. How he never forgot to remind her to eat on time. How, in crowded places, his hand would instinctively pull her closer. How he always positioned himself in front of her