It had not even been five minutes since I signed the divorce papers, and I was already taking my son and daughter to catch a flight to London.
At the very same time, all seven members of my husband’s family were gathered at a luxury reproductive medicine clinic, surrounding his pregnant mistress while she went in for a scheduled ultrasound. None of them knew that after looking at the screen, the doctor would say a single sentence that would freeze the whole room and send my ex-husband into a rage so sudden and violent it would crack the glossy future he thought he had secured.
When my pen touched the divorce decree, the wall clock in the mediator’s office read exactly 10:03 a.m. It was a strange moment.
There were no tears, no shouting, none of the pain I had once imagined would come with the end of an eight-year marriage. There was only a hollow ringing emptiness inside me.
My name is Catherine. I am thirty-two years old.
I am the mother of two young children. And exactly five minutes earlier, I had officially ended my marriage to David, the man who once promised to take care of me for the rest of my life.
Barely had I set down my signature when David’s phone rang. The ringtone was familiar.
I knew immediately who it was. He did not even bother to hide it. He answered right there in front of me and the mediator, and his voice softened at once.
“Yes, I’m done.
Wait a little. I’ll be right there. The checkup is today, right?”
I heard every word.
David’s voice turned so syrupy and sweet that it made my stomach twist.
“Don’t worry.
My whole family will be there. Your child is the heir to our legacy, after all.”
I let out a slow breath. In all our years of marriage, I had never heard him speak to me in that tone.
The mediator pushed the document toward David so he could review the contents before signing, but he did not even glance at it.
He scribbled his name across the page and tossed it back with open contempt.
“Nothing to look at. Nothing to divide anyway.”
He pointed at me.
“The condo is my premarital property. The car too.
The two kids—if she wants to take them, let her. Less hassle.”
His older sister Megan, who had been standing nearby, spoke up immediately.
“Exactly. He’s getting married again soon anyway.”
Another aunt added with a smirk, “And to a woman who is carrying his son.
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