No Mercy, No Forgiveness

Chapter 7

He could only go back to the living room. As he turned on his phone, all he received were work–related messages. A day had passed, yet Maureen hadn’t called him or texted him to apologize.

“Good for you, Maureen. I’m curious–how long can you keep this up?”

He tossed the phone aside and walked into the kitchen.

The moment he opened the fridge, he was stunned.

Besides food, the fridge was stocked with various medications.

He picked up a packet, and the instructions were, “Five packets a day. Aimed at treating infertility.”

Infertility…

The pungent smell of medicine hit his nostrils.

Only then did it hit him–this was why she always carried the scent of acrid odor of medicine.

He couldn’t help but scoff. They had never slept together. No amount of pills would ever get her pregnant.

***

Meanwhile, in a shabby motel room.

Maureen opened her eyes groggily to a piercing silence. Her headache was killing her.

She knew her condition had worsened.

she could hear faint sounds even without her

she took the pills from the nightstand and placed one under her

place where she had lived for

she went back to her parents‘

her brother, Adrian Ramirez. They wanted to marry her to an old man in his eighties after

at the ceiling blankly, it suddenly

days, she hadn’t eaten, but she

was just that the all–consuming silence was

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rain in Karaville had been

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passers–by walking along the street in

alone.

an impulse, she bought a bus ticket and went to the countryside. She wanted to see Zoe Ingram, her nanny who

when she arrived at

face lit up with

“Reenie…”

as she looked at Zoe’s kind

health reasons, Zoe had never married

Zoe than to her

in Zoe’s arms, feeling as

Zoe was shocked when

hand on Maureen’s bony back and

to calm down and tentatively asked, “Reenie, is

tightened when she heard Geoffrey’s name. She instinctively wanted to lie, to tell Zoe he had always treated her