Harpe
ent lights suffocatingly bright. I stood tall, my hands shoved deep into my pockets, try
friend. "No way, what would he be doing here? I thought he was facing jail time for attempting to as
long this line was. Every second we stood here was a second she could change her mind. I was burning with urgency, desperate to legally bind her to me before that bastard A
hen she saw my name but maintained her professional composure. She began the standard p
d, she hesitated. Her blue eyes glazed over, lost in some distant thought. My hear
he sentence, I cut in, my voice rough and impatient with
used to eager grooms. I saw Alma glance at me, her brow furrowed. She completely mis
o new marriage certificates, still smelling
nted next to mine. My emotions were a ch
the clerk sai
blinding sunlight. I turned to my
ct marriage. We will not interfere in each other's private lives. Second, I will cooperate with you for appearances when necessary, and I expect
mmering in my blood. A one-year contract? A peaceful divorce
hock, I took her copy and, without breaking eye contact, tore it to shre
he cried out, unable to
my heart. Without her copy, she could never initiate a legal divorce. She was trapped i
t a time, "Ground rules? Alma, you don't seem to understand the
ce. No end date. N
ed out, my fingertips grazing her cheek in a touch that was both gentle and
wife," I deliberately e
stared at her hard profile, a seed of immen
ting through the silence. "
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