Always the Wrong Spin by Mark Twain 9
Chapter 9 A Divorce Agreement?
Chapter 9 A Divorce Agreement?
Kristen had no idea where Autumn had gone, so she deflected through tears. “Zachary, everyone’s watching us. Can we please just talk about this after the ceremony?”
Zachary pushed her hand away and shook his head. “I’m sorry. I can’t do that.”
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“Stop right there!” Elowen’s voice rang out with unusual severity. “You wanna make our family the laughingstock of this town again like you did three years ago? If you wanna know where Autumn is, you better finish this wedding. Otherwise, you’ll never see her again.”
Her words hit Zachary like a bucket of cold water, and he snapped back to reality. He knew Elowen never made empty threats.
Zachary walked back to the stage and let Kristen loop her arm through his as he numbly went through the motions of the ceremony.
When he slipped the ring onto Kristen’s finger, he couldn’t help thinking about how this was Autumn’s favorite style. She would have loved it, but now it was on someone else’s hand.
The moment the wedding reception ended, Zachary went straight to his mother to ask where Autumn was.
“Stop looking for her. She’s not coming back.”
Zachary’s eyes turned red as he shot back, “That’s impossible! She told me before she left that she was going to prepare a wedding gift for us!”
Autumn never lied to him. She just didn’t. So this time had to be the same as all the others Maybe she just got held up by something and couldn’t make it.
“Zachary, the gift she mentioned is right here with me.” Kristen stepped forward and handed
him a document.
The words on the cover hit him like a punch to the gut. “Divorce Agreement.”
His fingers clamped down on the papers so hard his knuckles went white. He forced himself to stay calm and flipped through the pages one by one, but when his eyes landed on the signature at the end, that familiar handwriting, his breath caught in his throat.
“This can’t be real.” His voice came out rough and strained as he jerked his head up to look at Kristen. “You’re sure Autumn gave this to you?”
Kristen flinched at the sharp edge in his eyes and explained carefully, “Yes, and she even sent
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Chapter 9 A Divorce Agreement?
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The wedding dress? That was the one Autumn had spent six months making by hand. Every single stitch carried a piece of her heart.
That was when it finally sank in. The divorce papers were real.
Those few thin pages suddenly became impossibly heavy in his grip. He staggered back, nearly losing his balance.
He couldn’t wrap his head around it. When the hell did he sign divorce papers? Why didn’t he have any memory of signing anything?
He forced his mind back through the last month, desperate to find some clue he’d missed. Then it hit him. A month ago, his mother had brought him some paperwork to sign.
She’d said it was a gift for Autumn. At the time, he’d been texting Kristen back and barely glanced at it before scribbling his signature and walking off.
“Mom, why didn’t you tell me that was a divorce agreement?”
Elowen let out a cold laugh. “I told you that gift was important. If you’d bothered to actually look at it instead of just signing whatever I put in front of you, you wouldn’t be standing here clueless right now. And let’s not forget, Autumn gave you both the divorce papers a whole month ago. Did either of you even glance at them once?”
Her words crashed down on Zachary like boulders, and regret started eating him alive from the inside.
Autumn had reminded him a month ago to check what was in that gift box, but he never opened it. He didn’t even ask her about it. Not once. And now the agreement had already gone into effect, and he was just finding out.
If he’d paid attention to what Autumn was saying back then, maybe things wouldn’t have ended up
like this.
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