For a few seconds, he stood frozen.
Sabrina picked up the agreement before he could, sounding surprised.
"Derek, is Monica serious? She's 5 months pregnant. Can she even get divorced now?"
Then she actually laughed.
Derek's expression shifted. He snatched the agreement from her and skimmed it, stopping at Monica Ellison's signature on the last page.
His fingers clenched on the paper.
"She's probably just upset that I left her to come get you. She's always been like this, hasn't she?"
He remembered when they had first started dating. Monica had told him she needed to come first.
He had smiled, nodded, and pulled her into his arms.
"Of course I'll put you first. You're the most important person in my life."
The memory made him smile.
It felt as though he hadn't held her in a long
