A Widow's Poison, A Wife's Rebellion novel Chapter 1128

Even when she pushed him to his absolute limit, and he had verbally agreed to divorce her just for some peace... deep down, he couldn't do it.

Why had she run away in the end? Because she knew that beneath all the arguments, he was never going to willingly let her go.

But now... the last chance to hold onto her was gone.

Fairfax took a shaky breath. "You're right. I lost everything a long time ago."

His heart was already an empty void.

Signing those papers felt like taking whatever was left of his world and lighting it on fire.

...

Yardley wasted no time.

Shortly after receiving the signed papers, he had Starla's legal status in Marina City completely expunged. He provided the death certificate and legally erased her from the system.

When the news reached Fairfax, his heart flatlined again.

"She really is gone from this world now," Amos remarked quietly, glancing at Fairfax.

The suffocating weight on Fairfax's chest pressed down harder.

Gone. All of it. Even her legal existence had been wiped clean. From this day forward, there was no record of Starla Lansbury.

A bitter, broken smile touched Fairfax's lips. "Yardley Hoggart... he's truly ruthless." To erase her very existence in Marina City like she had never been there.

"When someone dies, they have to..." Amos started, but seeing the murderous grief clouding Fairfax's face, he shut his mouth. He had thrown enough harsh truths at the man recently. Best to leave it alone. It was his own bed to lie in, anyway.

Susanna walked in, her expression grave.

When Fairfax had taken Starla to Yoran Country, he had probably mapped out a hundred different ways to keep her safe. But no plan survives contact with reality.

"It's all gone. I just..."

Just what? Fairfax didn't dare finish the thought.

Suddenly, his eyes hardened. "No. That's not right. She has to be alive!"

Susanna stared at him. Was he back to this again? She assumed the grief was just driving him insane, a twisted coping mechanism for a reality he refused to accept.

She took a deep breath. "This isn't the time to obsess over whether she's alive or not."

"Then what is? Tell me, what is?!" Fairfax's voice turned lethal. The woman he loved was supposedly dead—did he not even have the right to mourn?