#Chapter 39: No Safer Place

Aria’s POV Back at Cathy’s house, I changed into my Dr. A disguise. Cathy watched worriedly from the doorway to my bedroom as I looked in the mirror, adjusting my mask. “I think it’s too soon,” she said. “I can’t keep dragging my feet about Caleb,” I replied. After seeing him for myself and speaking with Matt, I was filled with renewed determination to see this case through, one way or the other. “But after what happened with Lucian,” Cathy said, “you could at least wait a day or two.” Lucian had once again denied me a divorce, once more without any good reasoning. The fact that he had coupled that denial with a lecture about my being out and about with another alpha made my blood boil. After traipsing everywhere with Sheila on his arm, he had no right to tell me who I could and couldn’t go out with. Not to mention that Lucian and I aren’t together anymore. Whether he signed the divorce papers or not, I no longer considered him my husband. That moment of weakness earlier