“Then, we’ll just leave it?” Theresa understood his point, that was, this case, no matter win or lose, there was not much meaning.
The man was at fault as he had a mistress. However, he did not go against the law. He did not kill his wife. His wife committed suicide, so there was nothing to do with him.
The lawsuit was nothing more than a little compensation.
Theresa thought that it was unfair, the price for cheating was too small.
‘If he did not like her, why did he marry her in the first place?’
‘Is it a mistress always better than a wife?’
‘Although it’s a rough saying, it’s somehow true.’
“Yes, you can’t take charge of it.” Anderson said, and a few lawyers behind him echoed, just thinking that they could not get much benefits from it and on the other hand, they would offend people. “What if I insist on taking charge of it?” Armand did not want to understand too much. He could understand it, but when he saw that the other party went to her funeral to grab the ashes of the dead and threw it on the floor, he thought that they acted too overly!
Even if the cheater would only lose some money, he thought that it was a punishment for him to let everyone know that he was at fault.
“Why are you doing this?” One of the lawyers said.
Anderson added, “Yea, it’s meaningless. Why are you doing this? You told us that our occupation is fair and unfair at the same time. We can’t survive in this career if we just fight for justice. Why are you so stubborn now and forget what you have said?”
Armand whispered, “That was the past.”
He had a different mindset now. At that time, he only wanted to be prestigious and did many things that went against his will and morals.
Sometimes, he knew that his client was at fault but he tried to defend him by all means. He was helpless as a lawyer.
In the past, he did not care about the case. As long as he could gain benefits or prestige from it, he would take charge of it.
He used to tell this to the lawyers in his law firm, but now, he changed his thoughts suddenly.
He was scourged by his conscience.
He thought that he was so unlucky now due to the reason that he had done many things that went against justice.
“It’s not easy for us to have such a prestigious firm. I don’t understand why are you so stubborn.” Anderson could not understand. He was not like this before. Why he changed suddenly? Armand lowered his eyes, “What goes around comes around.”
He wanted to do some good deed, for the sake of the people around him and the sake of himself.
They failed to persuade him and did not want to say anything more. Everyone left his office.
Theresa stood beside the window and looked at him, “What’s in your mind?”
Armand stood up and walked out from the office table. He stood in front of her and stared at her. He reached out his hand and hugged Theresa, “We’ll lose our child because of me.”
Theresa did not want to recall the past. She said to Armand in a serious tone, “Let’s not talk about the past. It’s history now. I choose to forgive you means that I have let go of the past. The wound is healed but there is a scar. If you talk about it, you’re revealing my scar, it hurts.”
Armand’s gaze lagged for a moment. Some tears came out of the corners of his eyes. His gaze was not as fiery as before.
Soon, he closed his eyes and said with a low tone, “I won’t mention it in the future, never ever.”
That was Theresa’s and his lifelong wound.
“Let’s go back early today.” Armand hugged her and Theresa said yes.
They walked out of the office. Armand’s phone which was in his pocket rang. He took it out and the screen showed that it was the phone number of his house. He knew that if it was not from Elizabeth, then it was from Elizabeth’s maid. He knew why she called him. Theresa was relaxed these few days. He did not want her to worry, so he hung up the call.00000
Theresa saw it but she did not say anything. She knew why Elizabeth called Armand too. It was all about the child’s matter.
She was down again. Child, for her, was an intractable problem.
At first, she thought that she would solve the problem by agreeing to have surrogacy but she failed.
Armand kept his phone and said, “Junk phone call from sales promotion.”
Theresa pretended that she did not see it and smiled while she was saying, “The promoters nowadays are irritating. The one, who sells insurance, sells houses and loans all call to expand their business.” Armand said, “Yea, so irritating.” He looked at her, “We still have some time, is there any place that you wish to go?”
Theresa shook her head.
“A film is recently released with pretty good reviews, let’s go and watch it?”
Theresa said, “Sure.”
It was okay for her to go anywhere as she did not have a particular place that she wished to go.
Armand took out his phone to search for the nearest available time slot.
The nearest one was more than two hours away, so he said, “Let’s eat first before we go.”
Theresa said, “You arrange it.”
They got out of the law firm and got into the car. Armand drove. When he just started the car engine and was about to drive it away, the phone in his pocket rang again. It was from his house. Armand hung up again with no expression.
When he was about to switch it off, Theresa said, “Send me back to my place, and you go back to see grandma.”
Armand explained, “Theresa….”
“It does not help if you shy away from the problem. It’s okay for you to not visit her for a short period of time. Can you not visit her in your lifetime? She’s old. If anything happens to her, you will regret it.” Armand wanted to say something to Theresa but he realized that he could not say anything. What should he say? Sorry? Words did not help to relieve Theresa’s stress.
He finally said, “Thank you.”
‘Thank you for her understanding, kindness, magnanimity and big heart.’
Theresa leant her head against the car window. She was looking elsewhere in a daze. It seemed that she did not hear his words. She did not say anything but just leant against the window quietly. Armand drove her to the residential area that they stayed temporarily. Theresa had an absent mind. She did not notice that the car was now stopped at their place. She did not open the car door and got down. Armand reached out his hand to stroke the hair beside her ear and asked gently, “What are you thinking?”
“Yes?” Theresa came back from her absent-minded state and found out that the car had stopped. She simply gave a reason, “I was tired just now and did not notice it.”
She unfastened her seatbelt and got out of the car.
Armand lowered the car window and said to her, “I’ll be back soon.”
Theresa smiled, “I’ll wait for you to come back.”
Armand asked her to go inside. After seeing that she had gone back to their house, he left.
On the way, he called the phone number of his house.
Soon, the call was picked up. It was Dora.
“Is it Armand?”
New Book: Beginning with a Daring Encounter
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