#Chapter 39 - You've Been Served

Adrian Stella diverts her gaze away from mine. I clear my throat and subtly fix my suit. Her gaze comes back to me and she watches my hands before turning to her lawyer and giving him a nod. “Adrian,” the man begins. I raise an eyebrow and watch as he reaches below the desk, pulling something out of his briefcase, and placing it on the table. He slides it over to me and our eyes meet. “You have been served.” I stare at the papers that sit before me. Without even having to read the first line, I know exactly what they are. My eyes move up from the table and back to Stella, who stares at me with her arms crossed over her chest. “So,” I lean forward and slide the papers away from me, passing them off to my lawyer to read, “you decided to go through with it.” “What made you think that I wouldn’t?” her question is genuine but her tone is challenging, wanting to bait me into another fight that can most definitely use against me. “Don’t answer that,” my lawyer chimes in before I c