Oops! I Had the CEO’s Quadruplets
I sat in that fluorescent hallway staring at the empty line where a whole man used to be, and for one second the size of it caught in my throat, that I was writing him out of their story with a twelve-dollar filing f*e, that if I did this right they'd grow up never knowing what that blank was meant to hold.
Then the clerk called next, and it was over, and I signed my new old name at the bottom. The ink went down clean and final.
Aurora Bennett. No one's ex-wife. No one's failure. Four Bennetts coming, a job sorting fabric, a room with a screaming radiator, and not one thing left that Damien Blackwood could take.
I walked out into the sun feeling, for the first time, like I'd gotten away clea