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Thalassa’s body went absolutely stiff–her expression, her movements, even her voice–as she stared back at the woman she considered a second mother. Though she’d expected the request, the sting of betrayal was too hard to

escape.

“Aren’t you going to say anything?” Rita asked after several seconds had passed.

Thalassa finally found her voice, but she was unable to eject the bitterness from it as she spoke.

“Do you realize what you’re asking of me, Mum? You’re asking me to forgive the person who did everything to ruin my life.”

Shame reddened Rita’s cheeks as more tears streamed down her face. “I know, I know what I’m asking of you. I know I’m not being fair to you.”

But Thalassa wasn’t done. “She drugged me and assaulted me with a man so that she could take naked pictures of me and convince Kris that I was cheating on him. She was Linda Miller’s accomplice in framing me for the embezzlement, and she’s been that woman’s accomplice in every plan against me. How can you expect me to forgive such a person, Mum?”

“She regrets it, dear. She regrets everything she did to you so much.”

A mirthless chuckle escaped Thalassa’s lips. “She regrets it or she told you that she does? Don’t you think it’s a little too convenient that she regrets it only now that she’s in jail?”

“Please, do it in the name of everything you shared together. In the name of the beautiful friendship the two of you once shared,” Rita pleaded.

Thalassa smiled wryly. “Karen didn’t exactly remember all that when she was betraying me, did she? How do I know that it wasn’t all fake?”

sad smile stretched across Rita’s lips through the tears. “Karen might’ve made a lot of mistakes, but

and I got together. Is it really love if her envy and jealousy were much stronger than it?”

her lips, as if she didn’t know what else to say.

hope that Kris would change his mind and come for her instead, but the day you and Kris got engaged, she accepted that she’d lost. She

mouth also set into a grim line

that Kris had told her he was in love with Karen and had even asked you for help

have any more

still didn’t change her perception

was deceived too.

but the

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doing to me. You don’t just go from loving someone and

she fought them back. “If she’d truly cared about me, she would’ve asked me about it. She would’ve given me the benefit of the doubt Why did she never tell me about it? I

everything Linda told her was true–until today. She

today?” Thalassa raised a

wouldn’t say why, but she seemed… shaken,” Rita said before stepping forward and taking both of Thalassa’s hands in hers, looking into her eyes with her tear–stained ones. “Dear, I know that despite everything, it’s still not easy for you to forget the betrayal, the hurt, or the pain, and

little girl is surely going to miss and need her. And also, please think of me.

Rita’s hold as she shook her head. “No. I’m sorry,

woman’s face, but all she saw was understanding as Rita nodded

wiped the tears from

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