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

had known what my

you always loved Andrea… I would never have married

my dad would have had an accident on our wedding day… I

time could go back, she would never have

deep bitterness and regret she had harbored for years were almost tangible, a physical

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how profoundly

an invisible hand gripping his

you have? You cried and begged to marry me

carried a

voice kept becoming smaller, and he

me! Where are

she said softly,

ever wanted is for you to be

dull thud rang

hand and clattered to

drenched by the pouring rain, its screen

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At Pearl Villa.

he stared

but all he was met with was the cold, mechanical voice. “We’re sorry, the

coat, put it on, and headed to the

closed around the