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

known what my mom and Adrian did… I would never …

had known… you always loved Andrea… I would never have

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

she would

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

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how profoundly she regretted ever

felt an invisible hand

do you have? You cried and begged to marry

actually carried a hint

smaller,

answer me!

of answering him, she said softly, “In

I have ever wanted is for you to be happy,

dull thud

hand and clattered to

the pouring rain, its screen

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At Pearl Villa.

he stared

“We’re sorry, the number you have

from the sofa, grabbed his coat, put

as his hand closed around the doorknob,