No Mercy, No Forgiveness

Chapter226

Fresh snow blanketed the road, knee–deep drifts piled everywhere after the heavy snowfall.

“Reenie, I remember how you loved snow most when you were little,” Zoc murmured.

Maureen linked arms with her. “Mhm, because snow meant Christmas Holidays were coming. Holidays meant new clothes and good food.”

Zoe didn’t tell Maureen she’d always hated Christmas Season. One holiday long ago, Maureen had been taken back to the Ramirez Family and never returned.

Her misty eyes gazed into the distance as she released a heavy sigh.

“Reenie, I want to see you settled with someone before I go.”

Maureen froze mid–step, clutching her tightly. “Don’t say that! You’re not going anywhere. Never…”

Her voice cracked, the lie tasting bitter as Gareth’s words echoed in her mind.

The doctor said the elderly woman might not survive through this Christmas Season.

Zoe gently patted Maureen’s hand, letting the false comfort linger.

“I know. I still need to see Roy and Ethan grow up.

But first, I want to see my Reenie find someone who truly loves her.”

toward home. “Geoffrey isn’t your right person. He’s like

memory and sight, he’ll become just like

“I know.”

“I won’t

“Mhm.”

Gareth boy is

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cut her off, shaking

anyone now. Gareth’s wonderful, but I

don’t love. That

up, unable to

set her mind on something or someone, she never wavered. Never learned to be selfish just

tired.

dressed woman standing in the

young male assistant followed

I ask Ms. Ramirez to

shook her head.

daughter who called a nanny “Mom,” achieved nothing noteworthy, and had hearing impairment? She didn’t want such

biological mother had specifically come to Small Town today and seen

either–she’d only sought Maureen out

saying Maureen wasn’t dead and had returned to Karaville