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.
Internal Rivalry
Jared wasn't looking at her. He was looking at Lydia. His eyes lingered on the woman in a way that made Jerica's stomach twist with discomfort. He wasn't just admiring her like everyone else. His gaze was too focused, too intense.
Jerica's heart pounded in her chest, a deep ache spreading through her. She held her breath, praying, just for a moment, that he would look at her, that he would see her standing there, waiting for him. She locked eyes with him across the room, willing him to come to her, to close the distance between them.
But Jared looked away. Deliberately.
He turned his back on her, not just physically but emotionally, as though he couldn't bear to acknowledge her existence. He shifted his position, placing himself behind a group of people, obscuring her view. Jerica felt the sting of rejection cut through her like a knife.