Mira Ashford stared at the documents in her trembling hands, unable to believe what she was reading.
DIVORCE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT.
The words blurred for a moment before sharpening again like a knife against her chest.
At the bottom of the final page sat Alexander’s signature.
Cold. Clean. Final.
Her stomach twisted painfully.
Last night, he had kissed her like she mattered.
Last night, he had looked at her with something dangerously close to love.
So why was he preparing to end their marriage?
The bedroom door opened quietly.
Alexander stepped inside, adjusting the cuff of his dark shirt before his eyes landed on the papers in her hands.
He stopped immediately.
Silence filled the room.
Not the comfortable silence they had slowly learned to share over the past months.
This one
