Chapter 700

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 the compensation 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, plastering the news everywhere.

If Lionel tried to deny it, she would expose his ridiculous idea of a “fake divorce” and his plan 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 had come up with such a scheme.

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

Even if it technically didn’t touch their marital assets, the plan was just plain foolish.

It would have been so much simpler if he had just offered her the same amount he was planning to pay in compensation, like she’d suggested in the first place.

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 the compensation 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

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

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 the last 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 a lawsuit.

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 clamped tightly around his throat had finally disappeared.

Now, he just had to wait for the

cooling off period to end pay Sandra

the compensation 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.