Chapter 131 - 115: At this moment, he just wanted to kiss her.
"They say it’s important to forgive when you can, you ought to give her a chance to start anew. Hasn’t she paid enough with twenty years behind bars for your mother’s death?"
Clara scoffed, "What do you mean by ’enough punishment’? Isn’t a life for a life the most natural justice?"
"Clara, is this what I’ve taught you? Have you lost all sense of forgiveness?"
Clara stood up looking disappointed, "Forgiveness? Because of her, I lost my mom. Isn’t sparing her life the greatest forgiveness I can give her?
Uncle Oliver, I won’t stop you from caring for her, but you can’t treat me unfairly. You can’t ask me to forgive my enemy just because of your own views.
I’m human, not an unfeeling machine. You can’t treat me like this just because I love you."
Oliver Turner put down his chopsticks, his face growing more displeased, "So what do you want to do now? Stay stuck here with Faye Townsend for the rest of your life? Faye is already exhausted managing the company and raising a child by herself. Can’t you stop troubling her?"
Clara bit her lip and stared at him, "Uncle Oliver, you’re such a gentle and considerate man towards all women in the world, why can’t you show the same compassion to me?!"
What do you want me to do, go back home and watch you and that woman be in love together? I can’t do it."
"In love? I see her only as an old friend.