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Rowena struggled for a long time, but she was eventually escorted out by the security. Throughout the way out, she was wailing and crying.
Antonio looked at Grace nervously and said, “I…”
“Don’t say anything,” Grace stood up and walked towards the private room, “I feel disgusted even hearing you speak now.”
Antonio’s face was filled with panic and despair, resembling Rowena who had just been taken away.
That night, Grace did not come home, and Antonio finally found her by the river.
“It’s cold here, let’s go home.”
“Home? There is no home between you and me,” Grace looked at the moonlight on the river, “Antonio, please, just leave. I beg you to have some mercy, stop torturing me, okay? For the sake of this love, I have almost sacrificed half of my life. What more do you want? Do you only plan to let me go when I’m dead?”
Antonio’s eyes welled up with tears, and his lips trembled, “Grace…”
“Antonio, give me a way out, if I have to face you for the rest of my life, I will rather jump from here and die, at least it would be cleaner.”
“I’m sorry! I’m sorry!” Antonio rushed over and embraced her,
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crying out in pain, “It’s all my fault! But… I can’t let you go; I can’t be without you!”
Grace looked at him for a while, then she sneered and pushed
him away.
“You kept saying that you loved me, but it turns out you only thought about yourself.”
She turned around to leave, but suddenly received a call from Sybil. “Baby, there’s something I need to tell you. Your previous phone number got cancelled, and the hospital couldn’t reach you. They called me instead. Your biological mother… she’s critically ill and wants to see you one last time.”
Grace stood frozen in place.
Even though she knew that the domestic territory belonged to Antonio’s influence, once she went back, it would be difficult for her to escape again. However, she still immediately rushed back overnight.
Antonio and Lincoln also accompanied her back.
Grace hadn’t seen her mother for over a decade. Her memories of her mother remained in her childhood, when her mother was always being beaten and couldn’t even have enough to eat, like a skeleton wrapped in dry, withered skin.
At this moment, she stood outside the ward, but she hesitated to push open the door.
“Grace, I accompanied you inside,” Antonio gently held her hand.
“Get out of here,” Grace pushed him away, “You stay outside,
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you’re not allowed to come in.”
She opened the door and went in.
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Upon hearing the sound of her approaching footsteps, the mother struggled to open her eyes and said, “You’re here… Actually, there’s nothing else I wanted to say, I just wanted to say thank you.”
Grace stared at her, she had never needed her mother’s
gratitude from the beginning, she only needed her mother’s freedom.
“You don’t need to thank me, saving you was also saving myself.”
The door of the ward was pushed open again, and it was the daughter of mother’s current husband who came to see her. In the already small ward, Grace was squeezed and had nowhere to stand.
With my mother, she never had a foothold.
He turned and walked towards the ward, and his mother called out to him loudly, “Alina! I’m sorry! I have been blaming you all these years and haven’t treated you well.”
Grace paused for a moment, “No need to apologize either.”
She could understand her mother’s pain, and only by completely letting go of herself, could she bid farewell to that painful memory and start a new life.
Outside the door, Lincoln stared at Grace in disbelief. “What did that old lady just call her? Alina?”
Antonio sighed, “Yes, Alina Scott was her previous name. Her
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mother’s last name was Parrish, and she chose this new name
for herself.”
Lincoln suddenly grabbed his shoulder and said, “Does she have a large scar on her right ankle?”
“How did you know?”
Lincoln took a few steps back wearily and fell onto the chair outside.
He had been searching for his lifesaver for so many years, unexpectedly, they were right in front of him.
and
He had fantasized so many times, that after finding that girl, he would give her the best of everything in the world and fulfill all her wishes.
But now, he not only hasn’t given her anything, but also did things that made her dislike him.
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