If she hadn't gotten cancer.
A month wouldn't matter. She could wait.
But her life was slipping away.
She didn't have another month to waste.
It had already been over two weeks since the diagnosis. She had just a little over five months left.
If she let things drag on a month's delay for the agreement to go into effect, another month to prepare the divorce papers, then waiting through the mandatory reflection period, another month-by the time she finally held the divorce certificate in her hand, three months would have vanished. She'd be left with just two months to herself.
Jessica sat there, helpless, her hands clutching the divorce papers so tightly her knuckles turned white, then slowly let them fall to her lap.
Timothy's brow furrowed in irritation. Did she really want to leave him this badly? She's not just making a scene, is she?
No, he didn't buy it for a second.
She was mute, an orphan, used to living in this tiny apartment before they got married.
After marrying him, her life had changed completely-she was someone in this world now.
ever give
him after seven years, she'd
away? She was mute-what right did she
and I've already
stepped closer to
Jessica was easy
he realized she wasn't nearly as easy as he'd
He
to believe he couldn't
reached for her hand. She was unraveling- expressionless,
through hers, his posture
take you home. I'll have the lawyer come to you, and you can give him a piece
stared blankly at
like that, it was easy to mistake it for tenderness—just a glance, and you
But she was furious.
man be like
moment, gentle the
was all an act. And yet, for seven
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