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.

legs happily, playing around with Julia, leaning over

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

carried

She stood there watching. After a while,

away.

divorce papers. He had been her

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

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

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

was past nine in the evening when

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

her mother had come specifically to spend time with her and her father, and they would make her sad if they

didn’t come back tonight, mother

still worried and said

Franklin said with certainty.

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

upset him..

always been very obedient to Franklin. Since he

disappeared as she bounced into the house,

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

it, casually asking, “Where is

Madam packed and returned home