Too Late to Love Me Now

My father, a rising star in a crime family, decided to leave my mother. During the divorce, he asked me to choose who to live with.

For the sake of my future, I chose him, the man who had money and power, over my penniless mother.

My choice broke her heart. "He has money, Mom. You don't. I don't want to be poor anymore," I told her, a lie that felt like swallowing glass. She looked at me with utter betrayal before collapsing in tears.

In my previous life, my love for her became the burden that destroyed her.