Divorce With Benefits: A Second Chance At Love
#Married #Office Romance Jerica Evans, a devoted wife and clerk at City Hall, feels her world slowly unraveling as the cracks in her once-loving marriage deepen. Her husband, Jared, a high-powered lawyer with a fierce courtroom reputation known as "The Siberian Beast," has grown distant, and his cold demeanor leaves Jerica questioning everything. Once the pillar of her life, Jared now feels like a stranger, more lighthouse than man—steady but unreachable, leaving Jerica adrift in loneliness and suspicion. When she catches him leaving work early with a mysterious woman in a red dress, her world shatters. As she balances her growing suspicion with the suspicious arrival of Harold Braddock, Jerica's former flame, the lines between loyalty, betrayal, and her own desires blur. Her once steady life spirals as her husband’s frosty demeanor and her own emotional wounds collide. As the emotional distance between her and Jared widens, Jerica must decide whether to fight for a love that seems to have slipped away—or walk away from the man who once completed her. What will she decide? What is Jared's secret? Was their marriage truly over? Has she truly stopped loving him? This is a heartstring-pulling journey of love, pride, and the devastating cost of hidden truths and unspoken desires, where one woman must decide if she’ll fight for the man she married or leave him behind to save herself. Please support the book by voting. Leave reviews and tell me what you feel in the comments.
Reason For The Quiet Distance
Three years into their marriage, Jerica had brought up the subject, only for him to brush it aside with reassurances that they "had time." But that vague response only deepened her frustration.
She couldn't shake the growing resentment, an ache that festered each time he dodged her attempts to discuss it seriously. Cleaning up the remnants of his careful planning the next morning felt increasingly hollow, as though she were merely fulfilling his needs while her own dreams went unheard.
Over time, her disappointment had turned into a quiet distance. She had pulled back in subtle ways, withdrawing pieces of herself she thought might teach him the weight of what he was denying her. But she had to wonder if that unspoken resentment, that quiet, persistent ache, had only added to the rift between them.