Love Burned, She Rose Unscathed

"I just never thought you'd go to such lengths for Roseanne."

And even more surprising was how much she meant to him, enough to risk it all and set up such a scheme.

"A scheme?" Corley chuckled lightly. "Not really. Just going with the flow, offering a little nudge where it's needed."

Like Murray said, the plan was full of holes. If he had actually put his hands into designing it, he would have been skinned alive, if not worse.

"If you can't dodge such a simple play, then you'd deserve a stint in the slammer."

A deal with no losses, why not take it?

Success means sending him straight to jail, or getting Murray and Millie completely out of the picture.

And if not, well, he was more than happy to be a thorn in his side.

"Despicable!" Murray clenched his teeth, "You'd screw me over for a woman?"

Corley sighed, "She's not just any woman..."

She was Roseanne!

Murray scoffed, "Spare me the lover's act in front of me."

But he simply said, "You don't understand..."

Murray sneered, "Don't understand your selfishness or

kind of saint. If you really cared for her, why did you just

as Roseanne was

she became heartbroken, and ultimately

people, have no heart. How could you be bound by morals? Let

hurt by me, suffer. Only then would she make up her mind to leave me, giving you your chance." "Watching her struggle in pain, despair in her struggles, and

someone means you can't

what did Corley

letting it all

didn't stop it; you allowed my hurting her. How

using Maisie

son to set

up...

think Roseanne

Sho

saw your true colors?"

pause on the other

today, "She's the simplest, purest person, hates scheming, despises cunning,

en

love you. She only has eyes for someone

he had been