We sat with the lawyer's sentence for a long time after she'd hung up. A piece of paper, in both your hands, that says the marriage was always meant to end. Adrian had gone to the window, to the city, to the place he goes when the only thing left to manage is himself. And I sat at the counter with Pip's terrible coffee going cold and did the thing I do, the only thing I have ever reliably known how to do, which is to think about it as a painting.

Paper Vows is a serialized fake-marriage billionaire romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.