measuring, holding on to small things because the bigger ones were too large to understand. Twenty-two minutes since Callum made th

perfect suit, calm expression, briefcase already prepared, no surprise at the late hour,

d. It hadn't been drawn up after her decision. It had

ned this,

it. "I prepared f

ke

e De

st enough that she

ting his opinion of her - maybe he'd expected a devastated woman desperate for revenge, or someone grateful enough to accept anything. He was wrong. Lena Hart

placed the document on th

odded. "O

the decisions." Her voice stayed steady. "No Voss employee, lawyer

e amendment. Cal

from everything connected to this marriage." She met Call

ed through his expression

ause. "If either person develops feelings th

ped typing. Callum lo

is unu

lready spent six years married to someone w

her, then nod

. Not a promise. Not a love story. A contrac

raphs - just white walls, fluorescent lights, and a room that smelled faintly of cleaning products. Two witnesses stood nearby:

od in a beautiful venue wearing a dress chosen after months of planning, believing she was beginning fore

he looked at her. "Do you, Lena James Hart, t

ng at her - no performance, no fake tender

d

as his tu

imple. The conse

e now m

ing designed to make strangers jealous. Nothing like Derek's diamond, chosen

pher outside," Callum sai

in

't have

" And sh

, three clicks, a woman leaving a building beside a man.

d recognized her: the woman humiliated on live television, the abandoned wife, the woman everyone expected to break. By four in

t cry. Sh

ping. Not after Sienna's announcement, not after realizing she'd hijacked the entire direction of his carefully plan

t's voice was tense.

the link. T

he'd never seen before - not sadness, not heartbreak, not the quiet acceptan

. The woman who would never embarrass him. But the woman in that photograph, he didn't recognize. And that frightened him more t

mage and opened hi

wyer a

graph again. "Find out everything about Callum