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.
Her Hidden Past(2)
"Honestly, the worst part wasn't Jefferson and my mother," Jerica admitted, glancing away. "It was my father. He knew about it—allowed it, even. He had his own affairs to cover up, so he let them carry on. It was just…part of the arrangement."
Jared's face softened, and she saw a glint of red in his eyes. He swallowed hard, his hands slowly unclenching. "I can't imagine what that must've been like. Here I thought growing up without a father was hard…" He muttered the last part silently.
He thought she had everything growing up but she had this big hole in her heart. Seeing her mother with another man who was not her father must have hurt her deeply. And to be shipped off the boarding school for doing nothing wrong…
Poor girl…