Chapter 9

Christopher was stunned for two whole minutes. He inspected the divorce certificate in his hands several times, but he couldn't shake the surreal feeling he felt. A divorce certificate? How could something like this exist without his consent? Christopher threw it aside in anger and pulled out his phone to call Brooklyn, only to hear the familiar automated voice replying that her phone was turned off. A surge of rage rose in his chest. How could Brooklyn joke about something like this? With their marriage, no less! Christopher looked up her accounts on social media, but he found that she had deleted all her accounts on other platforms. He actually… lost all channels of communication with her. He suddenly felt his head spin, and a sense of foreboding gripped him. This divorce certificate might actually be real. Brooklyn was not an emotional person who acted on impulse. In their five years of marriage, she always approached things with logic and facts, even when they had disa