ick with the scent of dust and stale, expensive potpou

filled with her old life: designer clothes, handbags, and jewelry,

out a worn, old suitcase. It had belonged to

hodical. She took only a few of her mother's thing

owns. She would show Carter, through her actions, t

, retrieved her personal documents, her passport

ivorce agreement she had commissioned that morning. The lawyer had sent it to her

he last page and

se K

firm, without a tr

enter of the expensive glass coffee table, where

arter's arrival time. She had no intention of seei

hat had imprisoned her youth, then grabbed her

he doorknob, she heard the sou

her throat. He was back.

into the hallway leading to the kitchen. There wa

all frame filled the doorway. His eyes immediat

up the document, and saw the words "Divorce Agreement" abo

ivorce papers? She dared t

hrowing the scraps into the air. They

sistant. "Ethan. Immediately. Freeze every single one of Eloise Knight's accounts. Bank

urvive a single day in New York. He would force he

hallway, Eloise heard everything. The

les turning white. She had expected him to be ang

engthened h

ed animal. He could feel it-the presence of another pe

ence ans

n he saw that only the old suitcase was gone, while all the valuables

worthless junk. It was a deeper insul

oise was already slipping out the se

rk stairs, her shoes making sharp

e knew a more brutal war had just beg

Carter's car still parked out front. He would be look