Publicly Mine, Legally Hers
"The law sees things differently. This filing asks the court to officially declare that no legal marriage exists between you and Ms. Sanders. We'll also be taking legal action over the false representations surrounding the wedding ceremony and the reputational and physical harm caused to Ms. Sanders."
Mason went still.
The words, "the law sees things differently," landed harder than anything else, stripping away the last piece of certainty he had been holding on to.
He had always brushed off Paige's insistence on legal status as nothing more than paperwork.
Now, that same piece of paper stood between them, something he couldn't get around.
"No, you can't do this," he said, his jaw tightening