He looked like a man watching his entire life collapse around him in real time. Before she took her away, Misty gave me one last look of pure hatred.
“You’ll be left alone in this empty house.”
“I was alone when you betrayed me,” I replied, “but today I’m finally free.”
They were led out in handcuffs, cameras recording every second of their public humiliation. After the room fell silent, Brenda handed me the final document that left everything up to me and my brother.
That night, I went to the greenhouse where my father hid when the world seemed too hard. I found a final letter hidden among the pots of jasmine and orchids.
“Mariana, if you’ve made it this far, it means justice has finally been served. I didn’t do this just to punish them, I did it to give you a chance to develop your own life.”
The letter mentioned a deed of ownership for the land next to my old flower shop, which he had bought from me.
“The strongest flowers are those that survive the cold,” he had written at the very end.
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