Now it all made sense.
"What are you standing around for? Move!"
Jarvis drove a savage kick into my side.
Several burly men rushed forward, seized me, and shoved me into the back seat of a car.
The entire ride, Tamara kept nagging at Jarvis to hurry.
"Jarvis, drive faster. Just knowing my name is on the same marriage certificate as his makes me sick. I can practically feel his poverty rubbing off on me..."
Jarvis reached over and squeezed her thigh.
"Alright, I'll speed up..."
Tamara draped herself over Jarvis's arm.
Through her sheer blouse, I could see the hickeys covering her skin.
The nauseating sounds from last night echoed in my ears again.
I pressed down hard on my wound, forcing back the bile rising in my throat.
The phone screen lit up in my clenched fist.
A message from Grandpa.
Arthur, I've already sent out the reunion announcement. The nine o'clock morning news will broadcast it across every station in the capital simultaneously. Send me your address, and I'll come pick you up and bring you home...
I glanced at my watch.
Eight forty-five.
Tamara, let's see if you're still this smug in fifteen minutes...
The car screeched to a halt in front of the courthouse at Tamara's insistence. Jarvis's people had clearly handled the paperwork in advance. In less than a minute, the divorce was finalized.
I stared at the certificate declaring our relationship dissolved and quietly exhaled, then looked up at Tamara with a raised brow.
"In such a rush to divorce. I take it you're planning to marry your precious Jarvis today?"
Tamara caught something off in my tone and faltered for a second. But the smirk returned almost instantly.
"Of course. A man as talented and loaded as my Jarvis? I need to lock that down tight."
She was already barking at the clerk before she finished speaking.
"Hurry up. Get the marriage certificate done already."
The official stamps came down on both marriage certificates at the same moment that the anchor's crisp, polished voice poured out of the television mounted on the wall.
"Breaking news. The sole heir of the Farley family, missing for twenty years, has been found. His foster parents named him Arthur Vance..."
