Piss Off, Alpha! You Lost Me Forever novel Chapter 148

Chapter 148: Chapter 148 The Humiliation

SOPHIA’S POV

I arrived at the courthouse at seven fifty-eight in the morning.

Damien was already there.

His black car was in the parking lot with the engine off. I could see him through the windshield before he noticed me.

He was on a call. One of his hands gripped the steering wheel so hard his knuckles had gone pale. His jaw was tight. His eyes were fixed on nothing.

I stood outside for a moment and just watched him in shock.

He was never early. In seven years of marriage, Damien Stone had been late to everything that involved me – dinners, hospital appointments, Ashley’s school events. He was always early for board meetings, for pack gatherings, for anything that actually mattered to him. The fact that he was sitting in that parking lot before eight in the morning told me everything I needed to know about how badly he wanted this done.

It should have hurt.

I walked up to the car and knocked on the window.

His eyes found mine through the glass. He said something short into the phone, then ended the call and stepped out.

We stood facing each other in the morning light. His scent reached me first - cedar, stress, and something like sleeplessness. My wolf noticed it all automatically.

"You’re early," I said.

"So are you." His voice was flat.

We walked into the courthouse side by side without another word.

The clerk at the front desk looked up when we approached. I spoke first.

"We’re here to file for divorce."

She nodded and reached for a form. "I’ll need both your identification documents, your marriage certificate, and your signed divorce agreement."

I turned to Damien.

He looked back at me. "Did you bring the marriage certificate?"

I stared at him. "It’s at Stone Villa. You live there. Why would I have it?"

His expression didn’t change. "I assumed you’d collected it."

"You assumed." I pressed my fingers against my temple and took a slow breath. The clerk watched us quietly. "Damien, the certificate has been sitting in the document drawer in the master bedroom for four years. You’ve walked past that drawer every single day."

He shrugged "I haven’t needed it until now."

"Neither have I, and I don’t live there anymore." I exhaled. "So neither of us brought it."

The clerk cleared her throat gently. "I’m sorry, but we can’t process the filing without all required documents present. You’re welcome to return when everything is in order."

And that was it.

We walked back out with nothing accomplished. I had taken an hour of emergency leave from the hospital for this. That was one hour I couldn’t afford, for a trip that produced nothing.

I sighed. Then I sighed again. I couldn’t stop.

Damien walked beside me toward the parking lot, hands in his pockets. He looked totally unbothered. His heartbeat was calm. His posture was relaxed. The man had just wasted both our mornings and he looked like he was taking a Sunday stroll.

"Does nothing bother you?" I asked.

He glanced at me. "Getting worked up won’t produce the certificate."

"I’m not asking you to get worked up. I’m asking you to look like you care that we just wasted an hour."

"I care," he said simply. "I’m not performing it."

I stopped walking. He stopped too, turning to face me, and for a moment I just looked at him - this man I had loved completely, hopelessly, for years, this man who had made me invisible without even trying. And I felt nothing. I didn’t even feel angry anymore.

My mind was just quiet.

It surprised me more than anything else had.

"I’ll find the certificate tonight," I said. "We go again tomorrow morning. Don’t forget this time."

"Fine," I said, standing. "But I’m paying." 𝒇𝓻𝓮𝓮𝙬𝙚𝒃𝒏𝓸𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝓬𝓸𝒎

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