Laura didn't ask Max to come along but asked him to stay outside and wait.
She wanted to go in there alone.
So Max let her.
After all, Diego was Laura's foster father.
Even if Diego did not love Laura, but as her foster parent, maybe she had something to say to him that she didn't want Max to hear. So Max gave them some privacy.
Two whole weeks had passed since Laura was kidnapped.
When Laura saw Diego again, she found him somehow like a stranger to her.
If she hadn't been sure that this man in front of her was not someone else, and if she hadn't seen him with her own eyes, she wouldn't have believed that someone could have changed so much in such a short time.
She saw that Diego looked so different than the guy she saw two weeks ago.
Although Diego used to look like a mess in the past, he at least looked better than this.
Now, in a prison uniform, thin, with pale skin that seemed to be a signal of an unhealthy body, he looked like a patient with an incurable disease and was about to die soon.
He was so thin that his both eye sockets were deeply sunken.
When she first glanced at him, she thought he looked like a skull wrapped in skin. And he was so skinny and bony that he looked particularly scary.
When he looked at Laura, he looked as if he had seen his biggest enemy.
He gritted his teeth and said viciously, "How dare you come here! You bitch!"
Laura didn't feel anything when he insulted her.
He had said so many vicious words to her over the years that she had become numb to those words.
Besides, she never cared what he said, so even when he called her names, she didn't feel anything.
Laura just said bluntly, "I came here today to ask you to sign the papers."
She said as she took the divorce papers out of her bag and placed them in front of him.
Diego looked at those documents, quiet for a moment, and then he giggled.
His smile was so creepy and eerie, like a bat that sucked blood in the dark.
However, Laura was not even a little bit scared of him.
Maybe because she probably knew that the man who could protect her was out there.
So she was somehow more at ease, calm and relaxed.
She sat there quietly with an elegant posture. Compared to him, who looked eerie, Laura looked like a little angel with a halo on her head.
She said in a calm voice, "Sign them. You owe it to my mother and me. After you sign it, we're done."
Diego sneered.
"Done? You put me in fucking jail and made me look like a freaking mess. And you came to see me saying that we're done? What were you thinking?"
Laura shot a look at him.
She chuckled, "I did this to you? When you kidnapped me for money, you never thought that you'd end up like this?"
"You think I could only suck it up and give you what you want? If you think so, then I can't help you. All I can say is that you are the only one to blame for what happened to you."
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