April Fools “Surprise” Husband Divorcing Me For His “Pure” Girl novel Chapter 27

Chapter 6

Chapter 6

Day twenty-one of lockdown.

tyan posted on Instagram for the first time in two weeks.

fine photos. Carefully arranged.

uckland Harbor at sunset, all golden and glowing. A spread of homemade food that looked like it came from a restaurant. Coffee shops, street scenes, the usual ifestyle porn.

hen the wine shots.

is hand holding a glass. That Longines watch with the scratched band I’d bought him.

ext photo-another hand reaching in to clink glasses.

lim fingers. Bare ring finger. Nails painted dusty rose.

ide’s color. Always had been.

aption: Living.

omments flooded in.

.ooks incredible!”

iving the dream down there!”

Kiss you bro.”

obody said her name.

it they all knew.

creenshotted everything.

y phone buzzed.

jana forwarding a message from the family group chat.

yan’s text: “Everything’s great here. Miss everyone. See you soon.”

er voice note immediately after: “My poor boy, all alone over there. We should call him more.”

I alone.

ight.

was three days into my new routine at the institute.

1. Stevens gave me an office. Real work. Real purpose.

he community issued a travel pass-four checkpoints each way, but I didn’t care. Out the door at seven, back by nine.

iana was livid.

ot because I was gone.

ecause nobody was waiting on her anymore.

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“What kind of wife runs off to work like this? Ryan’s not going to like it.”

“I’m not running anywhere. I’m working.”

She stared at me like I’d announced I was joining the circus.

That night, Ryan called.

I watched the screen light up.

Didn’t answer.

He called again.

still nothing.

Third time, Dlana dove for my phone and grabbed it.

Ryan, sweetheart! She’s been ignoring you all night-”

The screen filled with his face.

He was sitting on some cream-colored sectional, massive windows behind him showing a perfect green lawn and white picket fence.

hat wasn’t a hotel.

hat was a house.

Emma.” His voice had that edge to it. “You looked at the divorce papers?”

Yeah.”

You sign them?”

No.”

is jaw clenched. “Why the hell not? You’re keeping the apartment.”

With a million-dollar mortgage I can’t pay and a bank account you drained dry. Real generous, Ryan.”

lovement flickered on the right side of the screen.

lack shirt. Short hair.

ight there. Listening to everything.

iana didn’t catch it.

yan’s eyes darted sideways for half a second before snapping back to the camera.

We’ll work this out later.”

1

e ended the call.

ater.

yan’s favorite word.

ranslation: when you’re desperate enough to cave.

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Chapter 6

Not happening.

Harrison had been busy.

He pulled the records on that commercial property Ryan sold to Jade’s shell company-$960K for something worth $1.8 million. Textbook fraud.

But he’d found something better.

Three months ago, Ryan took out a second mortgage on our apartment.

$600,000.

In my name.

never signed a damn thing.

‘m left-handed. My signatures always slant left, every single time.

The signature on those mortgage documents? Perfectly upright. Clean. Obviously right-handed.

forgery.

Loan fraud.

*elony charges.

locked the copies in my desk drawer.

The evidence folder kept getting thicker.

wasn’t in any rush.

et Ryan think he’d won. Let him settle into that house with Jade, post his perfect life all over social media, toast to his clean getaway.

hat’s when people get sloppy.

hat’s when they make mistakes.

And I’d be ready.

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