After twenty years of marriage, I left my husband after discovering his infidelity. He soon married the woman he had been seeing, while I moved on, focused on raising my daughter, and ignored his occasional attempts to reach out.
Months later, tragedy struck when he died in a car accident. Soon after, his lawyer revealed that he had left his entire $700,000 estate to me. His wife was furious, but “the will was legally binding and left no room for dispute.”
The lawyer also gave me a letter he had written before his death. In it, he admitted, “Leaving you was the greatest mistake of my life.” He confessed he had never stopped loving me and explained that the inheritance was meant to provide for me and especially our daughter.
His words stirred a storm of emotions—anger, sorrow, and numbness. While the letter felt sincere, it could not erase the betrayal or undo the pain he caused.
Despite his wife’s efforts to fight the will, the court upheld it. I used the inheritance to secure my daughter’s future. The money didn’t mean forgiveness—only a reminder that regret often comes too late.
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