Not long after Tom was taken away, his parents, Frank Greer and Lisa Parker, showed up at our office.I had just gotten out of a meeting. When I stepped off the elevator, I saw Lisa sitting in the lobby in tears. Frank stood beside her, looking grim.The second Lisa saw me, she rushed over. "Stella, please help Tom! You two were about to get married. He just made a terrible mistake. You can't really be this heartless!"The front desk staff and several coworkers turned to look.Lisa suddenly dropped to her knees. "I'm begging you. If you drop the case, we'll still accept you into the family."I looked at her calmly.There was a time when I had cared desperately about winning Lisa's approval.Every holiday, I bought her gifts, made restaurant reservations, and went shopping with her. She accepted all of it, but she still told me I was too strong-willed to make a good wife.After I died in my last life, I heard her say outside the hospital morgue, "Maybe it's better this way. A wo
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