No Mercy, No Forgiveness

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Mostly, he’d text her, and his messages were always concise.

She answered, and his indifferent voice came through before she could say anything.

“Maureen, I have limited patience. You asked for a divorce back then, and now you don’t want it?

“Is it because I didn’t give you money?

“Now that you wanna marry someone else, 50 million dollars hardly seems enough, huh? Shouldn’t you be asking for more?”

Maureen’s throat tightened.

All of a sudden, she couldn’t hear a thing.

At the end of her life, she refused to be accused of something she didn’t do.

With the last dregs of her strength, she said with difficulty, “Geoff, I didn’t … marry you for your money.

“And of course, the divorce was never about money…

“Perhaps you don’t believe me, but I still have to say this… I knew nothing about my mom and Adrian breaching the contract back then… I swear…

“I’d never marry anyone for 50 million dollars…”

She spoke intermittently, her words broken.

He could hear the howling wind and heavy downpour on her end.

“Where are you?” he asked.

couldn’t hear

her phone, explaining over and over again, “If… I had known

had known… you always loved Andrea… I would

had an accident

she would never have married

harbored for years were almost tangible,

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profoundly she regretted

a sudden, he felt an invisible hand

right do you have? You cried and begged to marry

deep voice actually carried a hint

her voice kept becoming smaller, and

me!

answering him, she said softly, “In

I have ever wanted is for

dull thud rang

her hand and

soon drenched by the pouring rain, its screen fading

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At Pearl Villa.

panicked as he stared at

voice. “We’re sorry, the number

coat, put

as his hand closed around the doorknob, he