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

“If… I had known what my mom and Adrian did… I would never …

you always loved Andrea… I would never have

known … my dad would have had an accident on our wedding day… I would never have

time could go back, she

deep bitterness and regret she had harbored for years were almost

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profoundly she regretted ever

a sudden, he felt an invisible hand

it now? What right do you have? You cried and begged to marry

deep voice actually carried a hint

kept becoming smaller, and

answer me! Where

him, she said softly, “In

is for you to be happy,

thud rang

phone slipped from her hand and

pouring rain, its screen fading

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At Pearl Villa.

panicked as he stared

again, but all he was met with was the cold, mechanical voice. “We’re sorry, the number you have reached is temporarily unavailable. Please try your call again

sofa, grabbed his coat,

just as his hand closed around the doorknob,