Chapter 4

After that showdown at the police station, Lucas didn't even bother pretending anymore.

When we got home, he dropped all pretense.

"Sophia, since you won't agree to the divorce, don't blame me if I start playing dirty," he said coldly.

He started giving me the silent treatment and tried to starve me out by cutting off my allowance, hoping I'd just leave.

We spent nearly three months making each other's lives hell.

For those three months, I stayed in comfy loungewear, claiming my pregnancy was "unstable" so I could lie in bed all day and order Margaret around.

Lucas was…