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Just then, Zachary walked in carrying a lunchbox. He frowned when he heard the tail end of their conversation. \u201cWhat gift?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kristen looped her arm through his and said with a sweet smile, \u201cAutumn knows she messed up, so she brought me a gift to apologize.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Looking at how thin Autumn had gotten after being sick, Zachary felt his anger finally soften.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, if you know you were wrong, then stop targeting Kristen from now on. The wedding\u2019s in three days, so go home and rest up. I\u2019m gonna stay with Kristen for now, but I\u2019ll be there on the wedding day. Wait for me, okay?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Autumn felt nothing. Three days from now, the divorce would be final, and she\u2019d be gone. She wasn\u2019t waiting for Zachary anymore.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Over the next three days, Zachary didn\u2019t come home, and Autumn didn\u2019t contact him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On the first day, she smashed their wedding photos, tore up her diary, and burned everything to ashes.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On the second day, she packed up her custom wedding dress and shipped it to Kristen.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On the third day, she deleted Zachary, Kristen, and everyone connected to them from her phone, her social media, her messaging apps, her chat histories. She wiped them all out completely.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The day the divorce became official, she left early in the morning and went to the Courthouse alone.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When the clerk handed her the divorce license, she ran her fingertips over the gold embossed letters and stared at it with an unreadable expression.\u00a0<\/p>\n
When she got home, she was surprised to find Zachary there. He was wearing a brand new black suit and standing in the middle of the living room. When he saw her, a gentle smile crossed his face. \u201cYou\u2019re up early. Where\u2019d you go?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Before she could figure out how to answer, he started joking around. \u201cDon\u2019t tell me you were out getting that super special wedding gift you promised me?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Autumn froze. She hadn\u2019t expected him to remember that.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Back when she and Zachary had just gotten together and their relationship was taking off fast,\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Zachary hadn\u2019t understood the point. \u201cWe already got the marriage license. Does it really matter if we have a wedding or not?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
She\u2019d smiled at him. \u201cOf course it matters. If we have a wedding, I promise I\u2019ll give you an amazing surprise gift on our wedding day.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
So for this \u201cgift,\u201d Zachary started carefully picking out the perfect wedding date.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The irony wasn\u2019t lost on Autumn. The wedding she\u2019d been waiting for forever was happening on the exact same day she\u2019d get her divorce license.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Her mind was racing, but she kept her expression calm and nodded while clutching the divorce papers in her purse. \u201cYeah, I was out getting a gift.\u201d The divorce license counted as a gift, didn\u2019t it?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Zachary glanced at his watch. \u201cIt\u2019s getting late. Let\u2019s head to the wedding venue first, and you can give your gift later.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
He grabbed his car keys and headed for the door, but then noticed Autumn hadn\u2019t moved. He looked back at her, confused. \u201cAren\u2019t you coming?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Autumn stayed quiet for a moment. She still couldn\u2019t bring herself to tell him she was leaving for good. She made up an excuse instead. \u201cYou go ahead. I\u2019ll come once I finish handling something urgent.\u201d Something urgent? What could possibly be so urgent right now?\u00a0<\/p>\n
Zachary wanted to ask more questions, but his phone buzzed with a message from Kristen asking where he was. He rushed out a quick response. \u201cI gotta go. Hurry over once you\u2019re done, okay?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Autumn stood by the floor-to-ceiling window and watched his black car pull away and quickly disappear from view. She pulled out the fresh divorce license and set it on the table, then picked up the suitcase she\u2019d already packed and quietly closed the door behind her.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For some reason, a quote she\u2019d read once popped into her head. \u201cLet the past die like yesterday, and let the future be born like today.\u201d Life was still long. She\u2019d just treat this as a chance to start over completely.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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