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Edward responded to her with deafening apathy.
“Did you hear what I said?!” Maddison shrieked, frantically grabbing anything near her bed to throw at him. Cameron noticed that she had unplugged the IV catheter from her hand in alarm. “Maddie, please! Calm down, my dear!”
Edward dodged a few of the items and finally said placidly. Go and get it yourself if you want it. I’ve got things to do, so goodbye.”
I had to admit that Edward was impressively decisive. Once he made up his mind, he carried out his decision without hesitation–even if the immediate consequences were dire.
be with
He was prepared to suffer the jeers and scorn of the world to cancel our wedding just because he wanted to be Maddison. And now, he had decided to leave her and did just that.
Maddison had finally experienced what it felt like to be abandoned by a man she liked. Just like I had.
She brought this upon herself.
Edward and I left the ward together.
The door had barely closed when we heard Cameron cry out “I need a doctor! My daughter’s coughing up blood!”
We kept walking without looking back as paramedics and doctors rushed past us. We heard someone shout, “Get her into the ER!”
Her condition must be terrible.
“Are you sure you don’t want to go back there? This might be the last time you get to see her,” I remarked, keeping my gaze forward.
He ignored my question and said instead, “I’m sorry for the harm I’ve caused you, Taylor.”
“It’s okay. I don’t even hate you anymore,” I replied, offering a faint smile,
The opposite of love was not hate. It was apathy.
I saw him wince. He knew.
We reached the elevator, and he turned to me.
When the doors opened, he held them back. “Tay, I-”
“No. You and I have already become strangers. From now on, we walk our own patlis.”
As I headed home, Maddison’s revelation kept surfacing in my mind. It felt like an uncomfortable sting, and the more I thought about it, the more I needed to know.
I called my grandmother to ask about it.
“What a load of malarkey! Your mother might have fallen for Harry first, but he was the one who started wooing
her!
“At the time, he looked dashing and fashionable, like a dapper man! And your mom always had a taste for men who looked soft and mild. Who would have known he had a girlfriend all along?!
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Then, as if realizing something, Grandma added, “I bet that witch and Harry had planned this from the start! They wanted her wealth, so they worked together to con your mother out of it!
“I bet they were still together even after your mom fell form. How else do you explain those children?!”
I was relieved. The truth was similar to what I had suspected. I knew my mother had been the victim of a scheme.
Thinking about how much my mother had lost was painful fer choice to be with Harry had cost her the bright, beautiful future she deserved. Every step she had taken had been weighed down by pain and suffering–right up until her early death.
Marriage wasn’t just the tomb of her love. It was her tomb, period.
It was now the weekend, but I couldn’t rest. I kept thinking about the call Soren made yesterday,
I kept reminiscing about the times we had spent together.
I had to give myself credit for letting reason outweigh my sentimentalities.
his overly
Yes, he was like a ray of tantalizing sunlight, drawing my attention and fantasies toward him. However, unconditional kindness and his family background were the reality check that kept me from daydreaming any farther.
It was early Sunday morning, but I went to work at my office. Only then did I realize just how much trouble awaited the boss once I had taken that position.
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