Filed to story: I Got Married Without You
Edith ignored Eric and stared at Kate.
In their household, Kate was the one in charge, not Eric.
Eric, being the youngest son of Dominic and protected by his four older brothers, had an easy life. He married the person he liked and had a gentle and agreeable nature, always following his wife’s lead. Whatever Kate said, that was how it was. This made Eric naturally side with his wife, placing her as the top priority.
Kate knew that she was waiting for an answer from herself.
She tightly held Edith’s hand, gazing into those swollen, teary eyes and sighed deeply.
“Edith, I didn’t know that Anthony’s grandmother committed suicide because of me. If I had known, I would have told you the truth back then.”
“Why did someone have to die before you told me the truth?”
Facing her daughter’s questioning, Kate felt ashamed and lowered her head.
“I didn’t want to ruin the image you had of me, so I didn’t say anything. I thought that if Anthony could win you back, that past would gradually fade away with time…”
She never expected that Anthony would keep it a secret for her, nor did she expect that Edith would never forgive him…
Thinking about this, Kate tightened her grip on Edith’s hand and pleaded, “Edith, now that you know it was me who forced him to break up, please forgive him. Be with him and have a good future together. I wil no longer oppose you. Okay?”
After a cold laugh, Edith shook off her hand. “Do you think we can still be together?”
Her parents, even though they didn’t directly kill Anthony’s grandmother, were indirectly responsible. Kate, who could walk over someone’s dead body without remorse, wanted them to reconcile and be together again, but Edith couldn’t do 1.
Kate looked at her own rejected hand and said with deep disappointment, “Edith, what happened to his grandmother was my fault. Let me take responsibility. Don’t give up on Anthony because of this.” Edith trembled all over.
“You are the one persuading me to give up on him, and you are also the one telling me not to give up on him. Don’t you think it’s ridiculous?”
Kate was terrified as she watched her trembling daughter, Edith. She quickly scooped her up into her arms and patted her back, trying to comfort her.
“Edith, it’s Mom’s fault. Please don’t scare Mom like this, okay?”
Edith, leaning on Kate’s shoulder, tears streaming down her face.
“My life has already been ruined by you all. From now on, don’t interfere in my affairs anymore.”
Weakly, she pushed Kate away and took a step back, swaying as she turned around and walked down the corridor steps.
At the circular arch, stood a figure in black, with eyes red and full of concern, watching her.
Feeling the touch of that sympathetic gaze, Edith felt a tingling in her nose. She held back her tears and swallowed her grievances.
“Brother, please don’t repeat my mistakes.””
Paul’s handsome face showed a mixture of emotions. He stepped forward, getting wet in the rain, and stood in front of Edith.
“Edith, you and Anthony still have a chance. He has always loved you.”
Edith smiled, radiant like a flower, but inside her, there was endless pain and a hint of relief.
“Brother, I don’t love him anymore.”
Someone once said that after being hurt badly by someone you loved, you don’t have the strength to love again.
Others said that with time, even the most beloved person will be forgotten as the years pass.
Edith forced herself not to love Anthony anymore. And as she forced and forced, she truly stopped loving him…
With a smile on her face, she looked at Paul and then walked away, never looking back.
As she brushed past him, Paul could see the determination in her eyes.
She had fought with her mother for Anthony, and that’s why she left without hesitation.
But he knew that family ties couldn’t be severed. Edith would come back someday.
Love, on the other hand, could be let go. Edith could help Anthony get justice, but she wouldn’t turn back for him.
When she said she didn’t love him, it must have been the result of time’s baptism, allowing her to let go of her feelings for him.
At that moment, Paul finally understood what Anthony meant when he said that time would erode someone’s love completely.
He slowly raised his head and looked at Kate, walking towards him with an umbrella. For a moment, he felt that this gentle face was quite unfamiliar… “So, you’re the one who threatened Anthony with his grandmother…”
Anthony was such a fool. Helping his parents like this, what did it ultimately lead to? Losing his grandmother or losing Edith.
“Paul, I…”
“You still lied to me, saying it was to test Anthony, to see if he could stay true to his love for Edith, but in the end… it killed his grandmother, which you called a test?”
“I didn’t kill his grandmother, I just…”
Kate grabbed Paul’s clothes, but he pushed her away.
With immense disappointment, he glanced at her and walked away.
In one night, both her children had left her.
Holding an umbrella, Kate watched their retreating figures. She was unable to stop her tears from flowing.
Eric approached and embraced her, pulling her into his arms, softly comforting her.
“They will understand you when they have children of their own.”
Kate saw Anthony partying at such a young age and was afraid of her precious daughter ending up with a man like him.
She would rather end this love herself, cutting it off completely, than let Anthony hurt her daughter in the future.
If Anthony wasn’t like this, Kate wouldn’t be so heartless.
In fact, the couple was not narrow-minded, they just feared their daughter making wrong choices that would lead to an unhappy life.
But they didn’t realize that what they thought was good was actually a form of deception and harm to their daughter.
Once this harm was done, whether it was because good or bad intention no longer mattered.
Although she later realized that what she did was wrong, it was difficult to undo what had already happened.
