He Mocked My Scar, So I Left Him to His Regret Chapter 19

When the partnership evaluation for Lockwood Real Estate took place, I never entered the conference room.

Under the recusal procedure, I didn’t even look at the final score.

After the result was announced, the company’s compliance

director came to my office.

“They didn’t pass.”

I looked up.

“Why?”

“The Mooncrest Resource Committee is investigating the company’s director for using his position to interfere with academy subsidies. Our partners aren’t willing to take that risk.”

She set the file down. “It was a unanimous decision by the board.

Your mother recused herself as well.”

I nodded and signed the record.

Less than half an hour later, Lockwood stormed into the company

lobby.

Even as the Tidewatch guards intercepted him, he was shouting

my name.

“Lucia, come out here!”

“You could have saved this deal with a single word. Why are you destroying my company?”

I walked to the second-floor railing but did not tell the guards to let

him go.

“I wasn’t part of the evaluation.”

“The things said in those investigations came from your own

mouth.”

He looked up at me, his expression shifting from anger to

pleading.

“I was only confused for a moment because of Bianca.”

“She’s been frail since she was a child; she can’t manage

without me. You were different. You were always so smart and independent.”

It was the same excuse he’d always used, just dressed in different

words.

Before, he said I wasn’t worth caring for.

Now, he said I didn’t need his care.

Either way, it was only ever an attempt to justify his abandonment.

“A five-year-old child doesn’t stop being afraid of being alone just because she’s smart.”

I looked down at him.

“You knew my mother was trying to find me, and you turned her away. You had money for princess dresses and the power to take away my lunch, but you never once asked how I was living.”

“It’s not that you weren’t capable of being a father.”

“You just didn’t want to be *my* father.”

His lips trembled.

“Lucia, I regret it.”

“But I don’t need your regret.”

I turned and walked away.

Behind me, the guards escorted him off the property.

This time, no one bowed their head because he controlled resources. No one asked me to spare his dignity.

After the partnership failed, Lockwood Real Estate lost its chance

to enter the southern port market.

Several investors who had been counting on that business

withdrew their funding.

I never touched his company.

He had simply, at last, left the world where every rule used to

bend for him.

withdrew their funding.

I never touched his company.

He had simply, at last, left the world where every rule used to bend for him.