Tears finally escaped.
“But let me help you. Let me give you whatever I have left. Money. Property. Resources. Anything.”
Leo looked at me for several seconds.
For one moment, I thought I saw something soften.
Then he zipped his backpack closed.
“We don’t need your charity, Mr. Sterling.”
His voice was quiet.
“Everything we have, we earned.”
He glanced toward Elena.
“And everything we became, our mother gave us.”
My legs gave out.
I dropped onto the marble floor.
“Please.”
I didn’t care who saw me.
“I’m begging you. Don’t leave me with nothing.”
Elena walked forward.
She stood over me.
But there was no satisfaction in her face.
No triumph.
Just certainty.
“You aren’t being left with nothing, Julian.”
I looked up.
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“You’re being left with yourself.”
Her voice softened.
“And I can’t imagine a harsher punishment.”
Then she turned away.
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