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Chapter 116 CELESTE  Miranda squeezed my hands. "You'll do what you should have done years ago—you'll leave. You'll take the boys and build a life that isn't centered around a man who treats you like property." If only it were that simple. But I couldn't tell her about the contract. Couldn't explain that yesterday—the day of the accident—had been the day our six-year marriage agreement was supposed to end. The day I was supposed to give up the boys and disappear from their lives while Xenois married Sophia Hale, his supposed true love, his first love, the woman he'd apparently been pining for throughout our entire sham marriage. We'd already signed the divorce papers that morning. I remembered sitting in his home office, my hands shaking as I'd put my signature on the documents that would end my legal tie to him and begin the process of severing my parental rights. He'd been cold that morning. Businesslike. Reviewing the terms of our dissolution the way he might review a corporate merg