YvetteThe next morning, I woke up before sunrise.For a few seconds, I just lay there staring at the ceiling above me. After our little showdown yesterday, Kael didn’t come back home after seeing me leave with Soren.It was honestly surprising that he didn’t follow me home screaming and trying to find out what I was doing with another *man.But it was no surprise he didn’t lose his cool and kept up with the charade of pretending not to know me while at the banquet.That no longer bothered me, though, because it was close; it would finally be done soon. “It’s tomorrow,” Isla whispered, then my eyes drifted toward the calendar on the bedside table.It was tomorrow, finally, or technically today, since today was the final day to stay in this sham of a marriage, and by midnight, the bond dissolution ritual would begin.For some reason, I expected to feel different.Maybe terrified, emotional, or even heartbroken. But instead, I felt strangely calm, like I had been carrying something unb
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