The final documents arrived by courier on a gray afternoon that matched the weight in Emma’s chest. The envelope was thick, official-looking, its seal unbroken until Marcus slit it with a letter opener on the kitchen island. Inside were the divorce papers thick legal sheets, signatures already prepared in the old name, the old marriage, the life she had already renounced on camera months earlier. Emma stood in the living room, the enormous curve of her quadruplets belly resting heavily against the table’s edge, the heavy steel collar locked at her throat catching the dim light. Jax stood to her left, Marcus to her right. Neither man rushed her. They simply watched as she placed her signature beside the places marked for the dissolution of everything that no longer mattered.When the final page was complete, Marcus gathered the papers, slid them into the prepared envelope, and set it aside for filing. The divorce was finished. On paper, the woman she had once been no longer existed as
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