Chapter 3

Chapter 3 She Wants A Divorce

As the morning mist began to condense into dew, Stella moved her stiff body a bit. She glanced at her call history. All those calls to Ernest were unanswered.A faint, sarcastic smile touched her lips. ‘If he knew I was calling him to sign the divorce papers, would he still ignore me?’Stella refused to wait any longer. She carried her luggage downstairs. Seeing Stella, Betty hurried out of the kitchen with her apron still on, her eyes full of concern. “Mrs. Lloyd, where are you going?”“Betty, I’m leaving to look for a job. I may not be coming back. This is for you. It’s a gift for everything you’ve done to me,” Stella said, pressing a small velvet box into Betty’s hands.Inside lay a necklace Stella designed for a competition seven years ago. But an unexpected pregnancy enraged Ernest, who shattered it to pieces.It was Betty who stayed up through the night, carefully gathering each gem and painstakingly reassembling the necklace. Betty returned the fixed necklace to Stella, but from that day, Stella’s career had come to a halt.