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“I don’t know, Saylor, you tell me,” he says.“Alice and I get dragged back here from vacation to find out that someone has tried to kill our son and you’re the prime suspect,” he snaps at me.
“You can’t possibly think that I had something to do with this!This is nuts!”How could he think, or even suggest, something like this?Daniel and I haven’t been on the same page ever since Levi and I eloped and he brought up having a postnuptial agreement since we didn’t get a prenup, but I at least thought we had formed some kind of understanding over the last few months.
He shrugs and takes out a folder from his briefcase.What is it with everyone and folders?
“Seeing as how my law firm representing you is a conflict of interest, I suggest you retain a good attorney.You seem to have put yourself in some hot water.”
Is this really happening right now?My mind can’t even compute everything that is being thrown at me.I wonder if Olivia is back from New York yet.Maybe she can help me out.
“What?You’re not going to help me?Like in, at all?”
Mind.Blown.
“No, I’m not.But I am here to represent the best interest of Levi.”He takes out some papers from the folder, and slides them over to me with a pen set on top.
One thing I’ve learned about Levi is that you don’t just sign papers without thoroughly looking over them.Picking up the pen to look over what these papers are, causes my heart to stop beating.
Divorce Papers.
Saylor
Divorce Papers.
I knew this would be coming but maybe notthissoon.Did Levi have these drawn up before lunch yesterday?The last few days we’ve spent together showed no indication that this was where our marriage was heading.I thought we were happy and blissful; we have a baby on the way and in two days we were going to find out the gender of our baby.
Is it the baby that is scaring him away?
When I first told Levi about being pregnant, his reaction was less than stellar.It took the first two weeks to convince him that he was going to be a great father.Between Dr.Jordan, Mitch, and myself, we finally were able to show him that everything was going to be okay.When he embraced becoming a father, he whisked me away to a secluded island as an apology for his actions.He even made me recreate the moment of telling him that I was carrying his child.I thought he was crazy when he handed me a sack full of pregnancy tests to take, to make it even more real.We laughed and cried and made promises all night, while holding each other tight.
His words from the restaurant come back in my head as I replay yesterday’s event.I felt as though he cut me to the bone and I was exposed to everyone in the room.How can someone tell you they love you hours before, then rip it all away in a matter of minutes?He had never spoken to me that way or treated me so poorly before, even in the beginning stages of our relationship.He was cold, and his eyes were pleading with me, almost as if he wanted to say more.Did he really want to do this or was there something else?Looking at the pages in front of me tells me everything I need to know.
A throat clears and it brings me back to the reality that is now my life.
“Just sign next to all the blue arrow tabs and then we can be done with this,” Daniel says, pushing the pen towards me.
“Why are you acting like this?I’m family—”
“In a matter of a few signatures and around sixty days, that won’t be the case.”He leans back in the cold, hard metal chair.“I saw the videos.Hell, the entire world apparently saw what went down yesterday; let’s try to move this along and then you can,” he swings his arm around the room in gesture, “resume your new life, shall we.”
“I’m not signing anything until I speak with Levi, and that doesn’t look to be anytime soon,” I grit out.Our marriage might be over but I want a face to face with him if I’m going to write off the last eight months of my life, six of which we were married.“How are you even able to file something like this while my husband is in the hospital, basically on life support?You have to have his signature to make this legit.”At least that’s what I’m hoping.Maybe Levi and I can talk this through and work something out?
“You’re not going to get any more money out of him, if that is what you’re thinking.This has been in the works for some time apparently.Levi was just merely trying to give you the courtesy of saying it to your face, instead of finding out through a messenger.”He seems as if he’s enjoying this.“As for how, I’m simply acting as his proxy.In the event that he is rendered incapacitated, I’m the one who makes all his decisions if needed.I was also informed that he recently spoke with Lincoln about a divorce, a few months back.”
My heart sinks, and I’m losing the will to fight for our marriage after hearing this.If that is true then Levi and I need to have another conversation, because it’s starting to sound like he has been lying to me about ourhappyrelationship our entire marriage.
The smug look on my father-in-law’s face makes me want to throat punch him.
“I don’t give a flying fuck aboutourmoney.”I jab about it being half mine, since I didn’t sign a prenup.
“Listen here you little gold-digger, you are going to sign these papers and then my family is going to wash their hands of you.When he came to me and started asking about advice on divorce, I knew he was trying to find a way to undo what he’d so carelessly done.I always thought Levi was too good for you, and I plan to rectify that today.”
“And what are you going to do about ourbaby?Can’t wash your hands of this little one so easily, can you?”I place my hand on my barely there stomach.
His eyes widen briefly but then he erupts in laugh.
“You can’t really be so naïve in thinking that faking a pregnancy will keep Levi in your clutches?I can see where the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.”
Is he talking about my mother?Bastard!
