Chapter 174

Four days after I accidentally flashed Maddox, I received an email from Drake. It wasn’t a surprise, but it still made my heart sink and my stomach churn. The words held a power over me that I didn’t expect. The divorce is final. Elijah and I are no longer married. I glance at the wedding band and engagement ring still adorning my left hand. It never felt right to take them off, and it feels especially wrong now. The paperwork will follow, but as of yesterday afternoon, I’m not Mrs. Amber James anymore. It feels so odd after all this time. I was a child when I met him, only nineteen years old. Married at twenty-two, which seems almost Shakespearean by modern standards. I was always happy with that, though. I’d had boyfriends before, and they paled into insignificance next to Elijah. The way I fell for that man … It was like my heart took a plunge down the Tower of Terror. Now, here I am. In my forties, unmarried, and a completely different human being. Heck, I’m a different woman than