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

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

had known… you always loved Andrea…

had an accident on

time could go back, she would

years were almost tangible, a physical weight

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just how profoundly she

he felt an invisible hand gripping his heart, making

have? You cried and begged

deep voice actually carried a

her voice kept becoming smaller,

me! Where are

answering him, she said softly, “In

I have ever wanted is for you to

dull thud

her hand and clattered to

pouring rain, its screen fading to

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At Pearl Villa.

stared

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

his coat,

closed around the doorknob, he