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That way, they had to meet at the old house.
Stephanie stopped.
She didn’t know what was stirring in her chest.
Angry, or sad?
Or maybe both.
“Stephanie, I never asked you, back then at Groena, in those ten- something minutes when I was gone, what exactly did you say to him.”
“Back then we lost our child.”
“Stephanie, I was in pain too.”
“The reason I wanted a kid all these years, you knew.”
“So, Stephanie, why did you use the kid to set things up?”
Maxwell’s calm voice came through.
and
There was no yelling, no screaming.
It was just a very calm tone.
But said something cruel.
The emotion felt like it had huge power, pounding through Stephanie’s veins along with her blood.
It shook her so much her chest hurt.
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How could he say something so scary…?
Stephanie turned around and looked at Maxwell, who was standing in the woods under the moonlight.
Maybe because she was a bit far away, when she saw him at that moment, he actually looked like a totally different person.
Was he Maxwell?
Why did he have Maxwell’s face but look like a demon?
How could he….
Couldn’t control anymore, Stephanie walked quickly over to Maxwell.
“Pop!”
A hard slap landed right on Maxwell’s face.
Hit her palm until it went numb.
A burning pain hit his face, and anger and shame rose in Maxwell’s
heart..
In his 28 years of life, no one had ever dared to humiliate him like this!
Anger surged up, Maxwell turned back angrily.
I was about to say something, but then I saw Stephanie’s teary eyes.
She just stood in front of him like that, looking thin and weak in the moonlight. Her face was pale, but her eyes were red from crying.
Her tears…
It seemed like it would never stop flowing, quietly dripping down, without any words, but it broke his heart to see it.
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Ile remembered the day he lost his child in Groena.
She cried really hard that day, too.
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Back then, she curled up in his arms and whimpered softly, but now she didn’t make a sound, yet it broke his heart just the same.
His heart ached dully, and he never wanted to see her cry like that again.
Maxwell reached out, wanting to wipe the tears off Stephanie’s face, but she pushed his hand away.
“Maxwell.” Stephanie’s hand shook a little from the effort.
She looked at him.
“I. Stephanie, wasn’t that bad
yet!”
Tears kept falling and Stephanie clenched her hands, not wanting to look weak right now.
“You said Roxanne wouldn’t live for more than six months, and you wanted to take care of her, fine.
me fo
“You said you wanted to divorce fulfill her dying wish, and I went to the courthouse with you to get it doné.”
“I didn’t care about the thing between you and her.”
“But how could you insult me like this, insult my child!”
Stephanie spoke softly, word by word, and in this quiet moonlight. was especially clear.
“Maxwell, there were more people in this world than just you and Roxanne who were flesh and blood, and it wasn’t only your pain that
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counted as pain.”
“I admitted the one I loved wasn’t a good person. In the relationship, I could give up and walk away, but how could you… treat me and the kid like this?”
Stephanie’s lips trembled a little, and when she got to the last sentence, she still choked up.
Fingertips dug into the palm.
She pressed her lips together to look tougher. That was her pride.
“Stephanie.”
Maxwell frowned. Every word she said hit his heart like a ton of bricks and hurt like hell.
“About Roxanne…”
He wanted to say something, but in the end he just couldn’t speak.
The moonlight was like water, making the whole land look white and cold.
“Half a year.” After a long silence, he finally said, “She only had half a year left.”
Stephanie suddenly laughed sarcastically.
She looked up, her eyes moving away from his face, and looked at this dark sky.
Why did it turn out like this?
Why did you have to make her so sad?
Stephanie reached out and wiped the tears off her face.
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She didn’t want to talk anymore, so she turned around to leave.
But he grabbed her hand again.
“Stephanie.” He stubbornly called her
name.
She didn’t even want to say “let go” to him, just tried hard to break free from him.
But his hand just gripped tighter.
In the moonlight, his eyes were red, and he stubbornly held her hand, not letting go.
Stephanie struggled hard, she didn’t want to stay here anymore.
But as the wind blew over the lake, Stephanie’s head spun again.