EVANGELINE
I stared at him in shock, unable to properly process his words.
I should have felt happy, excited even. I’d been hoping for a divorce for weeks now, and he’d refused. It was just surprising that all of a sudden, he showed up at my doorstep offering to give me the one thing he had deprived me of for months. It was especially weird considering the fact that he was at my door this morning begging for forgiveness.
For a long minute, neither of us spoke, we just stared at each other, the smell of his cigarette filling the air.
“Okay,” I said finally. “I’ll give you the divorce on one condition. I need you to save Bella. She is in jail and I need to get her out.”
It was the least he could do. After all, this whole mess was because of Margaret. If she hadn’t tried to set me up wit
