Hannah desperately hoped Lionel would forget all about this. She hoped he''d naively believe that after they got their divorce papers and he settled thepensation payment, she would simply remarry him.


    Once they filed the divorce agreement tomorrow, she would wait for the 30-day cooling-off period to end. The moment she had the decree in her hands, she would call a press conference and tell every reporter and media outlet that she was officially divorced, stering the news everywhere.


    If Lionel tried to deny it, she would expose his ridiculous idea of a "fake divorce" and his n to use his own money for the settlement. She''d let everyone else judge him for his stupidity.


    She was still genuinely shocked that he hade up with such a scheme.


    The whole idea was absurd. A fake divorce, paying thepensation with his own money, and then remarrying her.


    Even if it technically didn''t touch their marital assets, the n was just in foolish.


    It would have been so much simpler if he had just offered her the same amount he was nning to pay inpensation, like she''d suggested in the first ce.


    If he had actually proposed that, she might have even negotiated with him, asking for ten or a hundred times the amount.


    After all, her ultimate goal was to interfere with thepensation payment and make sure things didn''t go smoothly for him. Whether he ended up paying it or not, she didn''t really care anymore.


    Things had gotten so messy that the money was a minor detail. Her real objective was to torment him, to make him squirm.


    He had treated her so poorly, and she was just giving him a taste of his own medicine the same treatment he and Sandra had subjected her to.


    "Hannah, I honestly can''t wait for tomorrow," Cherry said, looking at her with excitement.


    "Once you file the divorce agreement at City Hall, and he still hasn''t caught on, all you need is for no one to bring it up during these thirty days. Sandra will probably wait until the


    ve


    coofing off period is over to ask for the money which means you can get the divorce finalized without a hitch."


    If it weren''t for the new policy, they could have gotten the divorce decree on the spot tomorrow instead of waiting thirty days.


    But it didn''t really matter. Lionel had never signed thest divorce agreement.


    This time, however, they were going together, so he would definitely sign. As long as nothing went wrong in the next thirty days the divorce


    Wolfinalized.


    And even if some unexpected problem arose, Lionel''s own words about a "fake marriage" would be the strongest evidence they could use in court.


    Either way, a divorce was inevitable, whether through this agreement or awsuit.


    Her case was still in the queue, waiting to be scheduled. But once it was, the divorce would be guaranteed.


    When Lionel Rosenberg returned home, he felt the weight of his problems finally beginning to lift, one by one.


    Everything was starting to move in the right direction. The frantic, suffocating pressure was gone.


    The feeling of a hand mped tightly around his throat had finally disappeared.


    Now, he just had to wait for the


    cooling off period to end pay Sandra


    thepensation and their


    business would be settled for good.


    No


    more ties.


    After that, all he had to do was apologize sincerely to Hannah, and everything would


    go back to the way it was.