#Chapter 86 - New Beginnings

Stella I stare at the open wooden doors. My heart pounds inside of my chest as the future of my life comes into fruition before me. Today is the day. The day that Adrian and I will finally be divorced, the two of us to be set free from the chains of the contract we once signed five years ago. No longer will I be reminded of the wedding ring that sits on my vanity in my bedroom of the painful memories of our time together. I will no longer have to keep in contact with a man who has put me through absolute hell. A man who has destroyed my body and mind, ruining all sense of self worth when he clung to my adoptive sister instead of me when she woke up from her coma and me from a surgery. My mind is aflutter before we head inside of the courtroom. My feet stumble over each other and Dominic is there to catch me, steadying me right in front of the open courtroom doors. “Stella?” Dominic asks, his hand moving to my lower back. I nod, my throat feeling like it is on fire. He rubs