My Love Until the Last Goodbye (Mary and Maximus) novel Chapter 1051

“I want to know—who was she? What happened to her? How did you two end up separating? Didn’t she love you?” Paul asked, full of curiosity.

“Paul, maybe I could tell you how I met your mother instead…” Maximus said, uncomfortable just thinking about that distant past.

“No! I want to know about the woman whose heart you broke… Please,” Paul insisted, refusing to let him change the subject.

“Do you enjoy hearing about other people’s pain?” Maximus asked, raising an eyebrow at his persistence.

“I just want to know. It helps me not think about what I saw…”

“Paul, that’s a very convincing excuse, but I don’t want you to follow my example.”

“Dad, I know you messed up, but look at you now—you have a good woman by your side.”

“Diana?”

“Yeah. I like her. Besides, I’m sure you and Mom didn’t love each other anymore,” Paul said with confidence.

“Paul, I will always love your mother. She brought you into this world, she gave birth to your siblings—how could I not love her?” Maximus said, surprised by his son’s assumption.

“But you two were always fighting.”

“Yes, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t love her. Sometimes, as adults, life moves so fast that we become harsh and impatient. I think that’s what happened between your mother and me.”

“Aha…! But still, you had a lot of women,” Paul said as if it were nothing.

“Paul!” Maximus shouted, shocked.

“What? I’m not saying anything that isn’t true, am I?”

Maximus sighed in resignation. There was no point in ignoring it now. He sat down.

“Her name was Mary. Mary Preston… She was about ten years younger than me. I met her through your grandmother, Catherine.”

“She never liked Mom, did she?”

“No, she didn’t. Your grandmother was very strict, and your mother was rebellious by nature,” Maximus said, carefully choosing his words.

“Keep going…”

“Keep going with what?” Maximus asked.

Paul rolled his eyes.

“With Mary… Who else?”

“Paul…”

“What? I’m just curious about this woman. I want to know how you ended up married to Mom if you fell in love with someone else.”

“What’s important isn’t who I married or why. What matters is that you understand that in life, you’ll meet many people. But when the right one comes along, you’ll just know.”

“Dad, you’re dodging the story you were about to tell me.”

Maximus sighed.

“What I can tell you is that she was young, like you. She fell in love with me. I thought I loved her too, but the truth was, my heart belonged to your mother.