"I truly never wronged her... I can swear to that, my conscience is clear... When I was with her, it wasn't her family background I cared about, but her as a person. "
"Even if she was penniless, I would have continued to love her, to marry her. But fate intervened, and in the end, I never did marry her..."
My heart soured as Michael brought up this matter.
Remembering Laura on her deathbed pained me deeply, a type of agony I never wished to recall.
"Since then, although we haven't met, I already knew you," Michael said, his eyes flickering with disdain but unable to hide the hint of hatred.
"So, you assaulted Betty, your foster mother, to get back at me? To avenge your birth mother's heartbreak?"
Realizing the truth in Michael's words, I suddenly understood his longstanding coldness and hostility towards me.