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

always loved Andrea… I would never have married

dad would have had an accident on our wedding day…

could go back, she would never

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

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realized just how profoundly she regretted

of a sudden, he felt an invisible hand gripping his

have? You cried and

voice actually carried a hint of

smaller, and he

me! Where

she said softly,

ever wanted is for you to

thud rang

from her hand and clattered to the

pouring rain,

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At Pearl Villa.

he stared at the

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

his coat, put it on, and

just as his hand closed around