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.

Franklin, she played with the little girl. Her daughter swung her legs happily, playing around with Julia, leaning over to eat pastries that

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as he served them both, but his gaze remained fixed on Julia across the

had carried for ten months, nearly losing

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

away.

He had been her girlhood dream, yet he

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 he

her hard across the face. Almost seven years

putting the divorce papers in an envelope and instructing Auntie Sara to give them to Franklin, Maggie dragged her suitcase

was past nine in the evening

got out of the car. Because her mother was here, she actually hadn’t

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

back tonight, mother would surely follow them on their sea trip

and said glumly, “Dad, what if mom insists on coming

Franklin said with

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although Maggie had always tried to find ways to spend more time with him, she was still sensible enough whenever he showed his attitude, she

upset

had always been very obedient to Franklin. Since

previous gloom disappeared as she bounced into the house, telling

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

asking, “Where

and returned home at noon. Didn’t