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After leaving the courthouse, General Everett sighed with a hint of regret.
“Well, this old man didn’t get to flex his muscles after all.”
“You young people are strange. First you get all hot headed and fall in love, then you get hot headed and try to kill each other. Then you get hot–headed again
and want to die to make amends.”
“Hmph, life’s just too peaceful these days.”
“Back in our time, bad was bad through and through, and good people fought evil to the bitter end!”
Mom and I exchanged smiles, tears glistening in our eyes.
Dad’s name had finally been cleared!
After the case hit the news, countless internet users who had previously attacked us left apologetic comments.
hey called my father a hero who had saved a young girl from a lifetime of suffering.
Dad’s former colleagues also spoke up, describing him as an excellent teacher–kind and gentle.
Many people wanted to bring flowers to Dad’s grave, but they couldn’t find it.
he Hartwicks became pariahs, branded as “a family of scumbags.”
lias’s grave was constantly covered with garbage. Some people even drew talismans on his headstone, cursing his soul to be destroyed for eternity.
fom and I knew none of this.
arrying Dad’s and Grandma’s ashes, we left New York with Corwin.
in the road out of the city, Corwin handed me divorce papers and a bank card.
Before he was arrested, Cassian came to see me. He liquidated all his assets and put everything on this card.”
He said this was keeping his promise to you–that if he ever wronged you, he’d lose everything.”
didn’t refuse. After signing the divorce papers, I had them sent to a lawyer.
Vith all that money, I bought two small courtyards in a scenic mountain town and opened an inn with Mom.
heard Cassian developed depression in prison.
le refused medication, suffered from insomnia, and when he did sleep, nightmares would wake him immediately.
He was miserable, thinking about suicide daily, constantly begging to see me.
But I wasn’t even in New York anymore. Even when news reached me, I just smiled and said nothing.
I would never see him again. Not in this lifetime.
Let us live in different worlds forever–me moving forward, him drowning in the past.
That seemed just fine, didn’t it?
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