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

and over again, “If… I had known what my

always loved Andrea… I would never

my dad would have had an accident on our wedding

could go back, she would never

she had harbored for years were almost tangible, a physical

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realized just how profoundly she regretted

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

you have? You cried and begged to marry me back then,

deep voice actually carried a hint of

voice kept becoming smaller, and

answer me!

answering him, she said softly,

I have ever wanted is for you to be

dull thud

slipped from her hand and

the pouring rain, its screen fading to

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At Pearl Villa.

stared at the

again, but all he was met with was the cold, mechanical voice. “We’re sorry, the number you have reached is

grabbed his coat, put it

hand closed around