All Chapters of The 99th Divorce Agreement: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

The moment Carter slammed his hand over the agreement, Chloe suddenly gasped.She clutched her hand."Carter, the ring is way too tight."Carter let go of the paper instantly.He turned and gently took her hand in his.Head bowed.Completely focused.Seven years ago, he put a ring on my finger with that exact same intensity.His hands had been shaking back then, terrified he had hurt me.Now, he was only worried about hurting someone else.I stood frozen, ink from the signing pen staining my fingertips.Chloe pulled her hand back.The ring scraped loudly against the edge of the wooden table.Carter reached out to catch her, his shoulder shoving me aside.The sharp edge of the table slammed into my lower back.My bag fell to the floor.The positive IVF test result slid out onto the tiles.I bent down to grab it.Just then, Julian knocked over his glass.Iced wine poured over the table, soaking the paper completely.The words ‘Pregnancy: Positive’ began to smudge acro

"Evelyn! Are you really throwing a tantrum because of the baby?!"Sitting in the passenger seat, the pain in my abdomen tightened and kept coming in relentless heavy waves.I looked straight at him. "Who answered your phone last night when the hospital called?!"Carter hesitated for a fraction of a second.That fraction was all the answer I needed.Chloe’s voice floated out from his car parked nearby."Evelyn, stop cornering him. He was up late celebrating my birthday last night. He's exhausted."My fingers dug into the seatbelt.On my birthday last year, he told me something came up at work. He couldn't accompany me to visit my mother's grave.It turned out my important days were kept empty just so he could fill hers.Carter scowled. "She didn't know the call was important. Why do you always jump to the worst possible conclusion?!"I didn't answer him.I turned to Sarah. "Drive."Carter grabbed the window frame, holding the car in place. "If you walk away tonight an

When the audio recording ended, the rhythmic beat of the fetal monitor was the only sound left in the room.Sarah stood up, her eyes rimmed with red."Call the police!"I reached out and held her back."Lock it down first.""The audio file, the call timestamp, the hospital duty log, lock every piece of it down."Rage had to be anchored in solid evidence.Otherwise, they would just paint me as an unhinged, emotional mess.I stared at the last second of the recording's progress bar.Chloe’s light chuckle still echoed in my ears.After my second miscarriage, Carter held me in his arms.He swore that from then on, he would personally answer every single call concerning me.Now, my desperate call for help had been cut off by Chloe.She intercepted the call through our shared family tablet.Carter had logged into his account on that tablet so she could manage her streaming sponsorships.When the hospital's priority alert popped up on the screen, she saw it.She hadn't just st

My heart went unnaturally still.Chloe held up the papers to the camera."Evelyn used her past miscarriages to trap Carter for seven years."Even this current pregnancy is just a bargaining chip for her divorce negotiations."The chat flooded with comments at breaking speed.Carter sat beside her, his face lined with exhaustion.He finally spoke."I hope everyone stops attacking either side."His statement sounded neutral.Yet it effectively implied that I was equally at fault.At our wedding, he stood before all our family and friends and swore that if I ever suffered a single grievance, he would consider himself a failure.Tonight, he failed.Except I was the one paying the price.I couldn't stay silent any longer.My reputation and my baby's life were being dragged through the dirt.I instructed Marcus to release the notarized timeline.Strictly facts.No emotional pleas.Section one: The original live stream recording where my marriage was wagered.Section two: T

I instinctively covered my lower abdomen with both hands.That single motion made him freeze in his tracks.He stared at my hands, the color draining completely from his face.A second later, he dropped to his knees right at the foot of the courthouse steps.He offered up the silver wedding band in both hands."Evelyn, come back with me. I'll quit the live stream."I'll kick Chloe out. I'll make up for every single thing I owe you."Passersby pulled out their phones to record.I didn't reach down to help him up."This is a courthouse," I said quietly."Not your live stream set."A performance won't fix what's broken."His eyes were bloodshot."I'm not performing! I swear, I finally realize how wrong I was."Seven years ago, he knelt in the rain to propose.He promised that I would never have to face life's storms alone.Yet on the stormiest night of my life, he was the one carrying Chloe out of the room.---Carter's mother hurried over, clutching a thick stack of old