The Queen's Back

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After returning home, Mona felt utterly exhausted. She took a quick nap and got up in the late afternoon to start preparing dinner.

When she picked up her phone, she noticed Maxwell hadn't replied to the message she'd sent him earlier.

A familiar sense of helplessness washed over her. She wondered when this kind of life would finally come to an end.

Mona said: [Maxwell, I'm getting dinner ready now. Let me know when you see this.]

Mona knew Maxwell wouldn't reply right away, so she didn't keep checking her phone.

Hattie prepared fresh vegetables and meat daily, so Mona glanced through the fridge before deciding on the evening meal.

She spotted her favorite steak and, given the cold weather, decided to make beef vegetable soup.

She also saw some tomato and remembered that Maxwell used to say he loved it. So, she planned to include it as the vegetable dish for dinner

As the food neared completion, the soup was already filling the kitchen with its aroma, leaving only the vegetable dish to prepare.

Thinking of Maxwell again, she washed her hands and went to the living room to check her phone.

There were several messages, mostly from her grandparents and her best friend, but nothing from Maxwell.

Mona couldn't help but open the chat with Maxwell first. Since his memory loss, it had become a one-sided conversation, filled almost entirely with her own words. Maxwell's responses were brief, with an occasional "okay" or "Not bad," or sometimes he didn't bother replying at all.

Reading through their chat history, Mona felt her eyes well up.

She realized she had become what people online now called a "simp."

She was clinging to Maxwell shamelessly, just as she once had with Teddy. It was as if everything had come full circle, only this time with a different person.

Without thinking for too long, Mona dialed Maxwell's number.

phone rang for a long time before an automated voice informed

a tear from

She couldn't be completely rational. When things upset her, she still cried. Somehow, crying seemed to be the only way

asking what she planned to

heart felt

relationship with Maxwell had been a bumpy ride. But she had treasures she could boast about without hesitation, her grandparents' love and a decade-long

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lost in thought.

was waiting only for Maxwell

sat there as the clock's hands moved round and round, Outside, the sky

of her thoughts, it was almost eleven. She felt physically

wondering when Maxwell would

decided to go upstairs to freshen up. Just

The caller was Maxwell.

Maxwell often ignored her calls, Mona

had barely rung twice before she

voice came through the line. "Mona, come pick me up from the club. Bring some cash. I'll

ask how much to

the dial

already five past eleven, and she had to go pick Maxwell

bodyguards, retrieved her bank card, and had Haley drive her to the address Maxwell had

started outside, and the wind

especially empty at this

air. Mona gazed at the drops on the window, feeling a fresh wave of confusion. She no longer knew how to relate to Maxwell. The car wound through the streets until it finally arrived at the illustrious club. The club's bright lights stood out among the buildings, its lavish decor radiating luxury. Haley got out, opened an umbrella, and helped

and the rain fell in a

in the rain caught

they even entered, a club attendant was already at

smiled at Mona. "Oh, Mrs. Carter, Mr. Carter has been waiting for you. Please, let me

gave the attendant a polite