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Later, they said the family head brought Gwyneth to him, hoping she could help him recover.
But it didn’t work. Gerard tortured her so
badly that, by the time they found her, she was barely alive.
Apparently, she made it but ended up being disabled.
I didn’t bother digging for details. I just went on with my life.
Another year passed, and on my birthday, Glenn wanted to throw a big party, but I stopped him.
I ended up baking a crooked little cake for myself.
I fell in love with capturing life‘ s moments and posted random photos on Facebook.
One day, Gerard liked one of my posts.
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After that, the only news I heard about him was through the news.
Stories about his ruthless ways of taking over his family’s company in just a year.
Or his string of girlfriends, all of them with faces tweaked by plastic surgery.
Faces that all bore a resemblance to
someone.
One time, I was out at a restaurant for
dinner and ran into him.
He was sitting with some woman, all flirty and cozy.
The moment he spotted me, he shoved the
flirtatious woman aside.
He opened his mouth like he wanted to explain, but the words didn’t come out.
He kept fiddling with his coat, clutching it, then letting go, over and over.
But by the time he regained his composure, I had already walked past him.
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After that, the gossip changed.
They said he’d kicked all the women out of his life–even switched to having male
assistants.
He got really into charity work and even adopted a daughter.
He named her Yvaine.
He spoiled her rotten, throwing money at her education and anything else she wanted.
People said she had to be his biological kid.
Why else would he care so much?
Years passed, and then word got out that Gerard was seriously ill.
By then, his adopted daughter already had most of the family’s power in her hands.
When Gerard made his will public, he left half of his fortune to his daughter and donated the other half.
On his last day alive, which happened to be
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his birthday, his daughter came to see me.
“Dad said he hopes you can spend his final birthday with him,” she said.
The girl was raised exceptionally well–she carried herself with confidence, showing no signs of insecurity.
All these years, I’d made my peace with the past.
But I still refused to see him.
I wanted that to be my final revenge.
Not long after the girl left, Gerard passed away that very night.
For the first time in forever, I had a dream.
I saw him lying unconscious on a hospital bed, his hand pale and skinny and covered. in needles.
It hung weakly over the edge of the bed.
Doctors rushed in, covering him with a
white sheet.
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Gerard was gone.
I woke up early that morning.
It was spring, and the sun was shining brighter than usual.
