Later that morning, as she looked at a picture of Maisie having fun at an amusement park with their parents, smiling together on the carousel, Margot sat at the table and wrote a letter severing all ties with her family.
She then placed it in her parents’ room.
From now on, she would no longer be a daughter of the Johansons.
She no longer had parents or a brother.
At noon, when Maisie sent a video of Charles giving her a piggyback ride and promising to love and protect her forever, Margot called a few gardeners to dig up all the tulips in the backyard.
Charles had carefully planted all the tulips after learning that she loved them, and he had tenderly nurtured them for over a decade.
He had said that no matter where she got married, he would transplant the tulips there, as they symbolized his love for her.
But now, she no longer wanted his love.
That evening, when Maisie sent an audio recording of Joey setting off fireworks by the river and declaring she would always be the most important person to him, Margot took a box to the Griffins.
Inside it was the heirloom Joey had entrusted to her when he was seventeen.
Back then, she had joked about him giving her the heirloom so early, asking if he wasn’t afraid of what the future held.
However, Joey had only held her tightly, his eyes full of passion, and said, “Margot, the only person I want to marry in this life is you. If it’s not you, I’ll never marry at all.”
Now, she was getting married, and the groom was not him.
Suddenly she heard the sound of a car engine coming from outside.
Margot opened the door to find a middle-aged man in a suit standing there.
“Hello, Miss Margot. I am the butler from the Stewarts, Alfred Hampton. I’m here to take you to Northwatch.”
Margot nodded politely, grabbed the luggage from the side, and softly said, “Let’s go.”
Alfred took the luggage from her and glanced at the empty house.
“Don’t you need to say goodbye to your family?”
Veridian City and Northwatch were thousands of miles apart, and since she was marrying into a prominent family, it was unclear when she would be able to meet them again.
Margot shook her head and got into the car. “Drive, please.”
There was no need for goodbyes.
There would be no need for anything from now on because, starting today, she no longer had a family.
In the dark of night, the car slowly made its way to the airport.
