#Chapter 87: There’s someone else

“He gave me divorce forms.”

Lucy practically screamed. “He did what?!”

“He gave them to me tonight at dinner. Hundreds of pages, Lucy. He had a whole, complicated thing prepared before he even told me anything about it.”

“Oh my Goddess, Yena, why?! I thought you were in love?”

“I thought so too,” I said, and then I broke down into sobs again.

Lucy gave me lots of reminders to breathe while I tried to stop crying. She told me that she loved me and asked how she could help.

“You’re helping already,” I told her. “Thank you. Thanks for listening.”

“I’m here for you. Always.”

When I was able to catch my breath, I told Lucy the whole thing.

About how Nolan told me last week that I could study abroad, and he’d support me. But then tonight, he finally revealed that it was just not something I could do at all… if I stayed married to him. If I stayed a princess.

I didn’t even mention Gina yet, when Lucy brought it up.

“Do you think… that it could really be about something else?” she asked caref