Chapter 1
“Mrs. Everly, here are the divorce papers. Please have a look, and if everything’s alright, just sign at the bottom.” Amara stared at the papers in front of her, feeling a buzzing silence in her mind that drowned out everything else.
“Mrs. Everly?”
Seeing her lost in thought, Will Zade waved a hand in front of her eyes to get her attention.
Snapping back to reality, Amara asked, one of bafflement, “Finnian wants to divorce me?”
Her face was partially hidden behind a mask, but her dewy eyes, filled with confusion and sadness, were visible. Will felt a pang of sympathy and looked away.
“Yes, Mr. Finnian Everly mentioned that with Mrs. Grace Everly’s passing, there’s no need to continue this marriage, so he wants to proceed with the divorce.”
Amara felt a sharp pain in her heart, but it was accompanied by a strange sense of relief, as if a weight had finally been lifted off her shoulder.
Three years ago, to bring some joy to Grace in her final days, Amara, the second daughter of the Sullivan family, who had once been disfigured, married into the Everly family and became Finnian’s wife.
