Susan Caldwell's brow furrowed slightly, and a bad feeling immediately surfaced in her heart.
Vera Xavier continued, "I told you back in Trellis that a simple 'sorry' can't fix everything. I like to think of myself as a generous person. That time in Trellis, when you nearly got me killed—I was willing to treat that as an unintentional mistake. That's why I forgave you."
"But I truly never expected you to be so narrow-minded. I forgave you, yet you kept looking for chances to hurt me. If you were only coming after me, I could have written it off as bad blood between us. I can understand you targeting me, and I could even forgive that."
"But in the process, you dragged in someone completely unrelated. To get your revenge, you stopped me from saving a man in cardiac arrest. If I had stayed behind for even a moment longer, he would have died."
"So I won't be forgiving you this time. And we won't be friends anymore."
