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.

played with the little girl. Her daughter swung her legs happily, playing

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fixed on Julia across the table, as if she were the only one

“urgent matter.” And this was the daughter she had carried for ten

smiled. She stood there watching. After a while, she withdrew her

away.

had been her

would never have married her. In the past, she had naively believed that if she tried hard enough, there

slapped her hard across the face. Almost seven years had passed. It was

to give them to Franklin, Maggie dragged her suitcase to the car and

nine in the evening when father

father’s clothes, moving sluggishly as she got out of the car. Because her mother was here, she actually hadn’t wanted to come home tonight.

to spend time with her and her father, and they would make her sad if they

back tonight, mother would surely follow

But she was still worried and

said

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Maggie had always tried to find ways to spend more time with him, she was

dare upset him..

Isabella’s memory, Maggie had always been very obedient to Franklin.

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

remembering Maggie’s instructions, handed the envelope to Franklin,

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

Madam packed and returned home at noon. Didn’t