Chapter 427: Gaining An Ally
Talia’s birthday was nearing and she didn’t want to celebrate her birthday this year too as usual. Although she accepted all the facts, her birthday is still the day she killed Cyrus and she found it hard to celebrate her birthday.
Vivian and Cyril’s wedding was a week before Talia’s birthday and Marcella’s been nagging Talia to attend Vivian’s bachelorette party and so Talia decided to make a trip to Esteria and stay there until the wedding.
Before leaving for Esteria, Talia met with Sandy. The letter only contained Sandy’s wish to meet with Talia and Talia wanted to meet her.
Sandy wasn’t very talkative. The woman who used to have arrogance in her eyes looked meek now and her eyes looked puffy. Talia wondered if it was because she grieved for Ralph’s death.
"He was having this bracelet in his shirt pocket when we got him." Talia passed the beaded bracelet in the ziplock bag to Sandy.
Sandy’s eyes got teary seeing that bracelet. Ralph was allergic to gold and so she designed this silver beaded bracelet with a lion face as the centerpiece as their one-month anniversary gift.
"I didn’t know he still had it." Sandy traced her fingers over the plastic bag and her lips curved to a sweet smile.
Talia knew Sandy is reminiscing about her past with Ralph and watched her silently.
"Ameca mea, I did love you. But not more than my vendetta. I’m sorry..." Talia paused as tears streamed down Sandy’s face. "Those were his last words. After that-"
"I don’t want to know his last words and how his last moments were. I hate him and I am glad he’s gone." Sandy said rubbing her nose with the back of her hand.
Talia sighed as she can see Sandy is lying. One of the reasons she was curious to meet Sandy because she wanted to know her reaction to the death of Ralph.