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.

she couldn’t hear

just clutched her phone, explaining over and over again, “If… I had known what my mom and Adrian did…

I had known… you always loved Andrea… I would

would have had an accident

back, she would never have

bitterness and regret she had harbored for years were almost tangible, a physical weight crushing against

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realized just how profoundly she

felt an invisible hand gripping his heart, making it hard to

you have? You cried and

carried a

her voice kept becoming smaller, and he could barely hear

me!

answering him, she

wanted is

dull thud

phone slipped from her hand

the pouring

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At Pearl Villa.

panicked as he stared at the dark

the cold, mechanical voice. “We’re sorry, the number you have reached is

the sofa, grabbed his coat,

his hand closed around the