On the day we parted, Luke took the divorce agreement from me. Three days later, we held Hope’s funeral. Luke buried Hope with me. When he realized that the tombstone only mentioned me as Hope’s sole parent, he smiled bitterly. However, he never asked if he could leave some words on Hope’s tombstone. After we left the cemetery, he passed me the signed divorce agreement. “I’ve revised some of the terms.”I had a rough readthrough. He had given me all of his money. “I’ve sent Peter away to another city. Darlene and Isla have been warned too, so even if they were released from prison, they would not cause any troubles to you.”After Luke updated me about everything, he suddenly laughed. “Elly, if I hadn’t hidden the truth from you the first time, would we have ended up differently from today?”Luke started with all the what-ifs. He did not tell me back then because he was afraid that I would feel even more betrayed. Hence, he hid it from me. However, things had
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