The Heart I Gave The Love I Lost

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Much later, she went out. She wandered aimlessly through this country that felt both

strange and familiar.

Near noon, she remembered she had arranged to have lunch with Franklin.

Recalling the morning’s conversation, just as she was debating whether to go home to pick up their daughter, she suddenly received a message from Franklin: [Something urgent came up, lunch canceled.]

Maggie looked at it without surprise.

Because she was used to it. In Franklin’s heart, whether it was business or meeting friends… anything was more important than his wife.

Plans made with her could be canceled at his whim.

He never considered her feelings.

Was she disappointed? Perhaps she would have been before.

Now she was numb to it.

Maggie felt even more lost. She had come here so eagerly, only to receive cold treatment from both her husband and daughter.

Without realizing it, she had driven to the restaurant where she and Franklin had dined many times before.

Just as she was about to enter, she saw Franklin, Julia, and Isabella inside the restaurant.

Julia sat intimately beside her daughter.

little girl. Her daughter swung her legs happily, playing around with Julia, leaning over to eat pastries that Julia had bitten.

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smiled as he served them both, but his gaze remained fixed on Julia across the table, as if she

“urgent matter.” And this was the daughter she had carried for ten months, nearly losing

She stood there watching. After a

away.

Maggie prepared divorce papers. He had been

and the old master’s pressure, he would never have married her. In the past, she had naively believed that if she tried hard enough, there would surely come a

had slapped her hard across the face. Almost seven years

and instructing Auntie Sara to give them to Franklin, Maggie dragged her suitcase to the car and told the

was past nine in the evening

her father’s clothes, moving sluggishly as she got out of the car. Because her

her and her

they didn’t come back tonight, mother

she was still worried and said glumly, “Dad, what if mom insists on coming with us tomorrow?”

Franklin said with

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to spend more time with him, she

upset him..

obedient to Franklin. Since he said she

finally felt relieved. Her mood lifted, and her previous gloom disappeared as she bounced into the house, telling Auntie Sara she wanted

Maggie’s instructions, handed the envelope to Franklin, “Sir, Madam asked me

took it, casually asking, “Where is she?”

returned home at noon.