My Love Until the Last Goodbye by Alut

Chapter 0233

Serenity lay on her bed, scrolling through her social media feed when a notification popped up–an email from Maximus Palmer. A sharp pang shot through her stomach, but it quickly dissolved into anger. That bastard actually dared to write to her? How could he? What gave him the nerve?

[Hello Serenity,

I’m sure by now you know the truth. I just want you to know that you are my niece, and I’m sorry if I ever saw you differently. I want you to know that I’d like to meet you and get to know you.

You are my late brother’s daughter. You’re a Palmer, and nothing would make us happier than for you to be part

of our family. You should know that we always searched for you, but we could never find you or your mother. You two are all we have left of Peter, and I don’t want to lose contact with you.

Best regards,

Maximus)

a little girl anymore, but she vividly remembered a stranger claiming to be her grandfather trying to take her away from her mother.

to reply. She wouldn’t hold back–after all, her fiery temperament came straight from

[Maximus Palmer,

contact me again… You’re a bastard!

woman who had no one and nothing. You stole the best of her and extinguished

certainly don’t consider us family. The only connection

that

brother. But even that means nothing, because you didn’t care about him when he was alive.

crossing paths with you. For a moment, I pitied you when I saw how lonely you looked, but now I see you brought that loneliness on yourself. You had a

you so much as try to approach her again, I promise you’ll regret it. You’ll learn to

Bye.]

few moments, then hit “Send.” Her words had been written in the heat of anger, fueled by the contempt she felt for the man who had hurt her gentle mother. Valerie was a woman who deserved admiration, not pain. Though her mother

that wretched man?” she whispered, her throat tightening as tears