All Too Late

“I don’t love you,” Samuel said coldly. “In the past, I didn’t understand what love was. You saved my life, for which I was grateful, and I naively thought that was love. But when I heard that Kathleen lost our children, I finally realized I don’t love you.”

He had rushed to the hospital back then and heard from Wynnie that Kathleen managed to pull through.

Their children, unfortunately, didn’t make it.

At that moment, the one thing that Samuel panicked most about was what would happen to him if Kathleen died.

If Kathleen left this world, where would I go to find her?

In that instant, he realized who he truly loved.

Kathleen! I love Kathleen and I can’t lose her!

Nicolette, on the other hand, couldn’t believe her ears. “You love her? But you just said you didn’t know what love was.”

“That may be so, but I do know that I don’t have that feeling when I’m with you,” Samuel retorted. “I might have already fallen in love with Kathleen from the day she became my wife. I just hadn’t noticed then.”

“Samuel, if it weren’t for your family’s disapproval, we’d have gotten married long ago!” Nicolette whimpered as tears coursed down her cheeks.

Alas, Samuel remained cold and distant. “If relationships can’t stand the test of time, it’d mean there wasn’t true love. I’ve probably never liked you that much, which explains why I gradually fell for Kathleen after you left. Or perhaps, my being with you was just a form of rebellion. The more my family disapproves of something, the more I want to go against them.”

“How could you treat me like this, Samuel?” Nicolette asked amidst sobs. “Don’t you know you’re my only hope?”

I’ve painstakingly put on this act for so long because of him, yet he’s now telling me he doesn’t love me? No! I won’t allow that!

“Since you’ve saved my life before, I’m willing to wipe the slate clean between us,” Samuel uttered calmly. “From today onward, we’ll have nothing to do with each other. I’ll arrange for you to start a new life abroad and also ensure that you’ll live comfortably for the rest of your life. However, you are not to show up in front of Kathleen again. I won’t allow you to bother her either.”

Nicolette continued to cry, indignant at the way Samuel had treated her.

Her goal had always been to marry rich so she could haughtily return to the Yoegers and laugh in their faces.

Now, however, all her hopes and dreams were shattered.

She had nothing left.

On the other end, Samuel promptly hung up the phone and turned to Tyson.

“Tyson, have you prepared everything I told you to?”

“There’s just a bit more to go.”

“Hurry up, then.”

Tyson nodded. “Understood!”

finally woke up, it

saw Emily sitting by

Staines’ elder sister, which made her

Kathleen to call her

Emily replied as her lips curled

of ladylike elegance, while Wynnie was a tough, no-nonsense career

without a doubt, were

blurted out, “Aunt

Try some,” Emily replied as she poured

the latter drank it immediately and felt

sorry to have

grin. “Your mother-in-law’s busy, so she got me to help take care of you. Let me

head. “I don’t need anything, Aunt

with me again. It’s really no bother at

don’t need anything, Aunt Emily,” Kathleen

let out a sigh. “It’s heart-rending to see

merely pursed her pale

Samuel say?”

said he wants to

“The whole family has tried to talk some

turned out, Emily was absolutely

was the CEO of Macari Group, and being

there were many times when he

loss before he finally understood what everyone else

again, Kathleen was

you?”

I were to ask for a divorce, I know he wouldn’t agree

rest of the world forced him to do so,

had ever been a viable option, things wouldn’t have had to drag on till

that Kathleen was thinking about it again,

the beginning, Samuel was the one who wanted a divorce, and she agreed

he changed his mind, but it became her turn

them went back and forth with

pale face and mumbled, “You’re a good person. If it were someone else,

for Samuel and

truly

weak, but she knew she

more as she watched Kathleen finish her food. Afterward, she chatted

Kathleen decided it was time to do something about

the bathroom

under the showerhead, her hand