All Chapters of Getting Divorced in An Apocalypse: After Us: Chapter 1 - Chapter 4

The phone rang again before she made it to the end of the driveway. She did not need to look at the screen to know who it was. Derek had never been able to let anything go, not a perceived insult, not an argument, not the feeling that he was right and everyone else was wrong.She answered on the fourth ring. "You can not just say something like that and hang up on me." His voice was tight, controlled, the way he got when he was trying to pretend he was not angry. "A divorce? After everything I have done for you? After everything my family has done for you?"She kept walking. The neighbourhood was quiet this early in the morning, just a few people out walking their dogs, a couple of cars pulling out of driveways. Normal people living normal lives, unaware that in forty days, everything they knew would start to fall apart."You have done nothing for me," she said. "I paid for the house, paid for the car, paid for your mother's medical bills and your sister's tuition. I have done everyth

The farmhouse was not what the real estate agent had described. It was even better.Emma stood in the overgrown front yard, staring up at the two-story structure with its weathered brick facade and its dark, empty windows. The agent, a nervous woman named Layla, was talking about the history of the property, something about a family that had lived there for generations, but Emma was not listening. She was looking at the house across the street.The Smith family home sat directly opposite, separated only by a narrow strip of road and a line of dying elm trees. From the upstairs window of the farmhouse, she would have a perfect view of their front door, their living room window, their driveway. She would be able to watch everything.It was not a coincidence. Emma had spent three days searching for properties, and when she found this one, she knew it was fate. The house had been on the market for months, overlooked by buyers because of its age and its remote location, but Emma saw only p