Seeing it with his own eyes?
Sean's video was what he saw with his eyes, but what happened? He misunderstood Clara because he believed what he saw with his own eyes!
What about last time?
Did he misunderstand what Laura had just said about being at the cafe too? Was Laura's face not cut by Clara but by herself, so that she could frame Clara?
The remorse in Horace's heart almost drowned him as he thought of it.
What did he do that time when Clara cried and asked him to believe her, saying that Laura had deliberately framed her by falling on her own, but instead of believing her, he said that she was blinded by jealousy and lost his temper with her? Later...
Laura later slandered her, and he did not believe that the child in her belly was his and advised her repeatedly to abort the child. She must have been terrified at that time. She must have hoped that he believed her and could protect the child in her belly.
But he was such a bastard. He never really accepted that child; even when he was willing to give in for Clara later, he didn't like that child. It was his first child, but he hated it so much at first, resented it, and wanted to let the kid die.
And then the child was gone, just like he wanted it to be, completely gone from the world. He never knew what the child looked like. Was it a boy or a girl?
Then Clara was disappointed in him; she didn't want him anymore and left for a foreign land without him.
Then she came back and was no longer his Clara Selman. She became Clara Hutchinson, cold-faced to him, no more of the sweetness and tenderness she used to have...
That was it, Horace laughed bitterly in his heart. That was how he had pushed Clara away from himself step by step, so it was him, it was him!
He had been furious with her some time ago because of Darren. Her tricks to seduce a man - he had said something like that to her.
Was it that his own eyes once again fooled him? Was it that he had once again arbitrarily taken things for granted? Was that why she was so angry?
At this point, Horace wanted to punch himself in the face; he was the biggest bastard in the world!
Looking at Laura, Horace's voice was cold enough to freeze a person to death, "I'm going to ask you one last time, what the hell is going on? Think clearly before you answer me. This is the last chance I'm giving you."
Looking at the anger in Horace's eyes, Laura realized it was useless to say anything else; Horace didn't believe her anymore and denying it would only make him hate her more.
"Yes, I did those things in the first place." Laura was in tears, "But I did it because I love you, Horace; I love you too much; I was too scared of losing you to do it; just forgive me for once, okay?"
"Love me?" Horace repeated with sarcasm in his eyes, "How dare you say you love me?"
With that, Horace turned and walked out the door. There were no more ties. He didn't want to see the woman in front of him again.
"You can't do this to me, Horace; you can't leave me like this!" Laura tried to reach out and grab Horace, but Horace's steps were too quick, and she lunged, falling out of the wheelchair.
Crawling forward with her arms braced, Laura grabbed Horace's trousers and burst into tears.
"Horace, you can't do this to me; without you, I have nothing. You're all I have left. Please, you can't leave me, you can't leave me. I lost my leg and became this because of you. You can't just say you don't want me, what do you want me to do from now on, how do I live..."
Grabbed by Laura, Horace stopped in his tracks, his face showing remorse but his heart not wavering. Such a snake-hearted woman, he could never let her stay by his side again.
"Laura, the five years I took care of you, Clara and I spent apart, and my children. These are all God's punishments for the wrong things I did back then. You don't have to use your legs to coerce me now; what is due, I have long since paid back. I no longer owe you anything."
With that, Horace took a firm step forward and left the office without looking back.
As she watched Horace walk away from her, Laura crumpled to the floor and cried out in pain.
Everything she had worked hard for all these years had been easily destroyed? She couldn't bear it; she couldn't accept it! She would never let it end like this!
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