When Natalie didn't respond, Victor quickly added, "If you don't want to meet her, just don't. You don't have to force yourself, Natalie."After what she did to you back then, it's perfectly understandable if you never forgive her."After Daphne's second marriage with Peter ended in violence, which left her crippled and broken, she'd long since lost the ability to stir up trouble.Age had caught up with her, and she simply was incapable of causing more drama.All these years, it'd been Victor arranging for her care. Like he said, she might not have been his biological mother, but she raised him and had treated him decently, so he felt the duty to provide for her.Over the years, Natalie supposed that Victor's hatred for Daphne had probably faded with time, but she couldn't bring herself to forgive Daphne, not that she wanted to.The harm done to her was real. They'd left such deep, permanent scars that no matter how much time passed, she could still recall the pain whenever she r
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