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 …

always loved Andrea…

my dad would have had an accident on our

could go back, she would never

for years were almost tangible, a

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profoundly she regretted ever

felt an invisible hand gripping his heart,

What right do you have? You cried and begged

deep voice actually carried a

her voice kept becoming smaller, and he could barely hear

me! Where are

of answering him, she said

I have ever wanted is

thud

phone slipped from her hand and clattered

pouring rain, its screen fading to

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At Pearl Villa.

as he stared at the dark

cold, mechanical voice. “We’re sorry, the number you have reached is temporarily unavailable. Please try your

sofa, grabbed his coat, put it on, and headed

as his hand closed around the doorknob,