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On the other side, Antonio arrived at the rooftop of the company and saw Rowena standing outside the railing. He looked at her with a cold expression in his eyes.
“Did you dare to appear in front of me?”
Last time abroad, if it wasn’t for Rowena’s sudden appearance, he and Grace would never have had such a strained relationship.
Rowena looked at him with a pleading expression on her face, “Antonio, do you really not want me anymore, even though we have two children?”
After experiencing so much, she had already understood that men were heartless and unreliable. However, she had been spoiled since childhood and later supported by Antonio. Besides spending money, she had no survival skills. She couldn’t support herself, let alone take care of two children.
She had no other choice but to come and beg Antonio, asking him to take her in based on their past relationship.
Antonio sneered, “If it weren’t for you instigating, Grace and I wouldn’t have ended up where we are today! I wish I could kill you, as for these two children, they are nothing but bastards. I don’t care about your life or death.”
His light and disdainful words shattered Rowena’s last glimmer of hope. She fell to the ground, her eyes filled with despair.
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In extreme despair, Rowena felt an unprecedented anger rising in her chest. “Bah! Was it me who caused the breakdown of your relationship with Grace? If you were truly faithful, could I have seduced you into my bed time and time again? Now that you’ve had your fun, you’re putting all the blame on me? Flies don’t land on seamless eggs, you are the rotten one, that’s why you got involved with me!”
Antonio laughed and gave her one last look, as if watching a monkey show.
Before leaving the rooftop, Antonio heard Rowena’s hoarse and furious roar, “Antonio! I curse you to never get what you want! May you have a miserable life!”
Antonio chuckled.
But as he walked out of the company building, several dark figures fell rapidly in front of him, like watermelons falling from a shelf. With a muffled sound, the skin and bones shattered, and the contents inside splattered all over the ground.
The bright red blood and white substance splashed onto his face at the same time.
Antonio was stunned for a few seconds, and his face turned pale as he saw the scattered bodies in front of him.
At this moment, he couldn’t say whether he was more afraid or more shocked.
Someone died here. He was taken to the police station for questioning. When he returned home late at night, he
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discovered that the bodyguards in the villa had all been knocked out and tied up, and the surveillance cameras were all damaged. Grace was nowhere to be found,
He was going crazy, shaking the unconscious butler frantically, shouting and asking him what was going on.
The butler was abruptly awakened by him.
“Mr. Antonio, it was Lincoln… It was him who broke in and took away the lady.”
“Lincoln –!” Antonio squeezed out these words through his teeth, at this moment he really wished he could chew up Lincoln and eat him.
He immediately dispatched people to block the city’s traffic, but it was already too late. At this moment, Grace had already left the country on a private plane.
After a whole day of flying, the plane landed in a small town
overseas.
Lincoln had already arranged a house and acquaintances here, and Grace settled down here.
“It has already been five days, everything that needed to be taken care of has been taken care of, why haven’t you left yet?”
Lincoln was taken aback. This was already the eighth time Grace had asked him to leave. “I… I wanted to wait until you got familiar with the surroundings here before…”
“I am already familiar with this place, so you don’t have to worry,” Grace locked the door and prepared to go to a nearby
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restaurant for a meal. “I appreciate your help, but I have also helped you in the past, so from now on, we are even. Of course, if you need it, I can treat you to a meal before you leave.”
Lincoln lowered his head with a hint of disappointment, “Do you… dislike me?”
Grace smiled and said, “I thought I had made it clear enough.”
She never wanted to have any relationship with any man from the Kaufman family again in her whole life.
Lincoln smiled bitterly and said, “I was leaving this afternoon.”
“Well – I wish you a smooth journey.”
Grace lived in this small town for three years.
In the past three years, she developed multiple highly successful technological products and established her own company. However, due to her inconvenience in making public appearances, all the companies were registered under the name of Sybil.
Lincoln would occasionally send various gifts.
Sometimes it was a gem, sometimes it was a fallen leaf, or a few different colored feathers.
During holidays and special occasions, even though he knew that Grace didn’t welcome him, he would still come.
He liked Grace, and everyone could tell, including Grace herself.
But she was not interested in getting involved in another
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uncertain relationship, she felt that it was also good to move forward on her own.
No need for another person to accompany.
On the third New Year’s, she earnestly rejected Lincoln.
And as the fourth New Year was approaching, Grace, after a long absence, heard news of Antonio. However, what she heard was the news of his death.
Over the years, he had been crazily searching for Grace’s whereabouts, but with Lincoln obstructing him, he couldn’t find any information.
Antonio gradually began to go mad, and a few years ago, he stormed into Lincoln’s office with a knife, nearly stabbing him
to death.
Besides not being able to find Grace, he often couldn’t sleep all night. Every time he closed his eyes, Rowena and the two children would appear in his dreams, their bodies covered in blood, with two wide–open eyes, silently staring at him.
I don’t know if this was retribution or if his unextinguished conscience was feeling guilty.
After a long time, he developed severe depression. A few days ago, he jumped off the top floor of the company building while holding the wedding photo of him and Grace.
Grace returned to her country to attend his funeral.
The priest read Antonio’s farewell letter, which was very brief.
The moment I cheated, I thought it was just a trivial and concealable mistake. But little did I know, my entire life was
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doomed from that very moment.
“I’m sorry.”
The old friend has passed away, and the grievances have also vanished. At this moment, what Grace recalls is the year when she was eighteen, when Antonio, with a blush on his face, stood in front of her and said, “Hello, classmate, can we exchange contact information?”
At that time, the sunlight was just right, shining on his profile.
Just like this moment, the light caressed his coffin.
