Chapter 0597

“Marcus…”

“Valerie, please, let me finish explaining-

“No!” she interrupted, her voice sharp. “I’ve already heard enough. I get it–you just want my damn signature.”

She stood abruptly, grabbed a pen, yanked the folder from his hands, and signed every paper he had placed before

her.

“Here it is. With this, you and I are nothing. Now get out of my damn house.”

I didn’t

your lawyer, Marcus. Don’t try to feed me cheap excuses now. You want to run? Go ahead! Run! I wish you and Peter had never shown up in my life. I wish I’d stayed alone. At least then, I’d only suffer from not being loved–not from loving the wrong people. I don’t even know which one of you is worse.”

my first husband was predictable. He hit me in the beginning just like my father. He punished me with his absence–just like when I was a child. At least I can say it was all a misunderstanding But with you and Peter, there’s no misunderstanding It’s just the truth. You both waltzed into my life, made me fall in love, and then left. You say you love me, but when it

his decision had been made to free her, to bring her happiness.

spat, tossing the folder back at him “I signed your damn papers. Now you deal with John. You tell him you won’t be coming home, that you’re not coming back from this ‘trip‘ you’ve been on. Explain it to him because I won’t. And yes, Marcus, I’ll admit it–I kissed Peter in this fancy office of yours. And I wanted more. But you know what? Nothing happened beyond that. Partly because of him, partly because of me. But in the end, my life

want it to end this way. Please…”

I went looking for Peter to close that chapter of my life, and he left anyway. I didn’t want anything more, but no one believed me. Everyone thinks

desperate young woman who had arrived in Hesperia with Serenity in her belly. But unlike then, she had a roof over her head and four children to care

door open

herself cry. She screamed and cursed her luck. Since childhood, she’d always been alone, always marked by the death of her mother, always judged by her father. The

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lay down beside her, and wrapped her arms around her fragile, trembling

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