Lucas stood frozen, the quiet hum of the gala’s prelude fading into the background as he stared at the message again.
For a long moment, he couldn’t breathe. Elaine had signed the divorce papers.
Had she lost her mind? This wasn’t some petty rebellion. She had actually gone through with it.
She chose the worst timing too. Lucas was at a critical point in his life, one where it mattered that his Luna, agent or not, was standing beside him. He was on the verge of securing his position as Alpha President, and then she goes and stirs the pot.
His pulse hammered and fury threatened to rise, something else surfaced. He remembered her face and how calm and detached she was when she’d faced him for the last time.
Then the image of her standing up to her family, defending h
