All Chapters of Divorced For The Heiress... But I Was The Real Billionaire : Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

On the morning her husband would decide to divorce her, Evelyn woke believing it would be the happiest day of their marriage.Evelyn woke before the sun and lay perfectly still, listening to Adrian breathe beside her, counting the seconds like she used to count stars as a little girl in the orphanage dormitory, back when she had nothing to wish on but ceiling cracks.Three years married today.She slid out from under the blanket without waking him, tiptoed across the cold floor, and pressed her hand flat against her stomach the second she reached the hallway.Six weeks. The doctor had said six weeks, and she still hadn't told a soul.In the kitchen, the old fridge hummed its usual complaint, a low rattling groan that Adrian always promised to fix and never had time for. Evelyn tied her hair up, pulled her apron over her nightgown, and reached into the pocket where the little plastic stick from the drugstore test sat wrapped in tissue paper, right next to the receipt for baby shoes she

Evelyn climbed onto a chair with a marker and a blank index card.She'd already said the words out loud a dozen times that day, but somehow writing them down made them feel more real, more certain, like nailing a promise to the wall where it couldn't slip away from her.She wrote three words in her best handwriting and taped the card above the dining table, right where he'd see it the second he walked in.Happy Anniversary.She stepped down, smoothed her apron, and looked at her work with the kind of pride usually reserved for something far more complicated than tape and cardstock.“He's finally coming home early,” she whispered to the empty kitchen, one hand resting low over her stomach, same as it had all week.The apartment smelled like butter and garlic and the rosemary she'd splurged on at the market that morning. Everything was ready. The gift box sat on the table in plain sight this time, not hidden behind the flour tin. She'd decided that morning she wasn't going to wait for t