“I admit I’ve been in contact with Jessica lately. I know I was wrong. You can hit me, yell at me, whatever you want—but please, don’t divorce me.”
Elysia cast him a glance so cold it seemed to freeze him from the inside out.
Why was Elysia looking at him like that? She’d always had a quick temper. Shouldn’t she be furious, shouldn’t she be yelling after seeing him take Jessica to the hospital? Why was she so calm?
Dorian’s heart raced with anxiety. He stepped forward. “Elysia, let’s just sit down and talk, please. I can change. Anything I did wrong, I’ll make it right—just don’t be like this.”
“Like what?” Elysia replied blankly, her face devoid of emotion. “I haven’t done anything. We should get a divorce. I’ve already made up my mind.”
A dull ache throbbed in her head, muddling her thoughts and making her words come out jumbled.
She lowered her eyes. “Ama, let’s keep packing.”
She didn’t want to look at Dorian; she walked over to the closet and continued putting her things into the suitcase.
Seeing how detached Elysia was, so determined to leave him, Dorian was consumed by fear. Anger began to bubble up in him too, though he wasn’t sure whether he was furious at her, or at himself.
He moved forward to grab her, but Finnian caught his arm and said quietly, “Calm down. You need to sober up.”
“I am sober,” Dorian snapped, shaking Finnian off. “I’m perfectly sober.”
But nothing about him looked sober. Amara glanced up at him, then quietly placed one of Elysia’s coats into the suitcase.
Just then, someone knocked at the door. Amara was closest, so she got up to answer. “Who is it?”
Elysia’s house had a smart home system. Though Amara asked out of habit, she could already see on the small screen that it was Jessica outside.

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