Aurora’s POV
Trying to erase my last conversation with Wayne the next day when I went to the court.
By the time the second court hearing came, the entire city was watching.
Every paper, every gossip site, every whisper at the market had my name on it. Some called me a fraud. Others called me cursed. But the worst of them called me his wife.
Jake’s.
It was like the world had forgotten I’d ever escaped him.
Zayne had been quiet since that night, the night he found the letter, the divorce papers, and asked that impossible question. Why did they smell like her? His wife.
Even now, those words echoed in my chest like thunder.
He hadn’t spoken to me for days. Not a word. Not a glance. We're in silence. And yet, something had shifted in him, a storm brewing behind his eyes.
I didn’t know
