Chapter 19 - Allison Sent A Letter
The letter arrived unexpectedly.
It was from Allison.
Clara almost threw it away.
Marcus stopped her.
“You don't have to read it.”
“I know.”
She opened it anyway.
Allison didn't apologize.
Not really.
She wrote that prison had forced her to understand how completely she had destroyed her own life.
She blamed Ethan.
Then herself.
Then circumstances.
But one paragraph made Clara stop.
Allison admitted that she had envied Clara long before the affair.
The mansion.
The company.
The family name.
But most of all, she had envied Clara's certainty.
“All my life,” Allison wrote, “I thought if I had what you had, I would finally feel valuable.”
Clara folded the letter.
Marcus watched her.
“Do you believe her?”
“I believe she believes it.”
“Is that enough?”
“No.”
Clara placed the letter in a drawer.
“I don't need her apology.”
“What do you need?”
Clara looked out the window.
“Nothing from her.”
That was the truth.
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For the first time, Allison's feelings no longer had any power over Clara's life.
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