Why did she take the Porilinese Test so many times?
He frowned deeply. Even if she wanted to travel or see a show in Magraica, she wouldn’t need a Porilinese Test score for that, would she?
Then, among the books in the drawer, he found a notebook.
He pulled it out and opened it. The words he saw were: Countdown to leaving Cedrick.
Day 25 of the countdown: Our ring, he gave it to someone else too. But, I don’t even want this person anymore…
His eyes stung with a deep pain.
I don’t even want this person anymore…
So, starting from back then, she had truly wanted a divorce…
Every time she said she wanted a divorce, she meant it. It wasn’t a tactic to keep him, and it certainly wasn’t a way to force Mari out. She really, truly wanted to leave him…
Reading on, he saw she had recorded her thoughts for the twenty–something days before she went to Magraica–each one a small matter in his eyes, but with every passing day, it seemed a part of her heart died.
He lowered his head, resting his forehead on her notebook.
My eyes burned.
Over these past 20–some days, if he had just for a few of them, put himself in her shoes and thought about her, he might have had a chance to win her back. But he didn’t.
He’d gone down a dark path and refused to turn back, and now he’d finally driven her away for good.
He thought she would never leave him, never leave this home, and that’s why he protected Mari again and again.
He thought, she’s my wife, she’s family, she’ll never leave. No matter when I come back, she’ll be at home waiting…
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How could she bear to leave him?
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She loved him so much. She’d liked him since high school, even risked her life for him. How could she really divorce him?
How could she not want this family anymore?
He also found out she’d applied for a visa twice.
Twice.
You only need one Schengen visa for a concert tour, so why twice?
Could it be that Robert was taking her away?
Could it be… that she and Robert had planned for her to go abroad a long time ago?
And to think he’d said today that since they were both in Seaston, they might run into each other in the future.
If she moved abroad, where would he go to run into her?
From outside, the sound of a key turning in the lock.
“Lucille!”
He jolted, getting up and heading for the living room.
It was a reflex. Who else could just walk in besides Lucille coming home?
But when the door opened, it was Maricela and Harlan.
“Why… is it you?”
Cedrick was barefoot, not even having had time to put on his shoes.
Right, Mari knew the code to the house too…
“Who did you think it was?”
Harlan came in, and the first thing he did was look behind him. “You’re home alone?”
“Yeah.”
Cedrick slumped onto the sofa, listless. Who else could it be?
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Lucille was never coming back….
“You didn’t answer your phone. Mari was so worried about you.”
Harlan sat down across from him.
Maricela sat down next to Cedrick. “Cedrick…”
“Why are you guys here?”
Cedrick asked the same question, his gaze not focusing on either of them.
“We were worried about you!”
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Harlan said, his voice tinged with resentment. “We care so much about you, but do you care about us?
Look at the state we’re in, and you don’t even ask!”
Only then did Cedrick look at him and Maricela, noticing their faces were swollen. “What’s this…”
“Hmph, your brother–in–law sent people to beat us up!”
Harlan guessed. It had to be!
“You should go to the hospital.”
Cedrick didn’t say anything else. He found his phone and transferred money to Harlan.
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