The sun was setting when Stefan parked one of Ethan's car outside Rayna's house.
He stared at the door for a long moment, his hands gripping the steering wheel like it was the only thing anchoring him to the ground.
"She signed them," he recalled his mother saying.
His mother had called less than an hour ago, her voice calm but edged with finality as she told him that Ivy had come by and signed the divorce papers. It was done. Official. Ivy was out of his life—at least on paper.
But even as Elizabeth recounted it like some minor business transaction, Stefan's mind had been somewhere else entirely.
Ruby, the woman who had stood beside him when he was at his lowest, who had comforted him, kissed him, and held his heart without even realizing it and how he could get her back.
He'd decided to quickly come speak to her now that he had nothing holding him back again.
