Chapter 244. Late Wife

"Nothing, maybe we can start on good terms," Jackson said with difficulty, struggling to find the right words.

He himself didn't know what they could start over. Now both were older and so many years had passed, it didn't even sound like a good proposition.

Lima gasped. "You're joking, right? After so long you want to give us a chance? What happened to giving chances in all these years?"

"I was angry and in pain. I never looked at it from your perspective," Jackson said. "Now when I think about it, you rejected me so easily, I was so mad about it. I was being petty."

Lima's heart ached. "I rejected you because you didn't need me. If you had, it wouldn't have taken you this many years to come and talk to me."

"How can you claim that I didn't need you? What I needed was just a bit of time, but what I got was rejection."

"You could have rejected my rejection."

"You wanted me to do that? I thought you wanted me out of your life. That's why you e