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.

daughter swung her legs happily, playing around

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

was the daughter she had carried for ten months, nearly losing her life to bring into the world.

smiled. She stood there watching. After a

away.

divorce papers. He had been her

she had naively believed that if she tried hard enough, there would surely

face. Almost seven years had passed. It was time to wake up.

to Franklin, Maggie dragged her suitcase to the car and told the driver, “To the

was past nine in the evening when father and

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

time with her and her father, and

they didn’t come back tonight, mother

she was still worried and said glumly, “Dad, what if mom insists on

won’t,” Franklin said with

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always tried to find ways to spend more

dare upset

Maggie had always been very obedient to Franklin. Since he said she wouldn’t, then

and her previous gloom disappeared as she

Sara responded repeatedly, then remembering Maggie’s instructions, handed the

it, casually asking, “Where is

returned home