Growing more frantic, Garrick added: “Please, Mr. Wang, spare me, and I’ll pay any price.”
Ethan shook his head, picking up the documents strewn on the ground: “Five people dead, thirty-two permanently injured, and you think an apology to me means anything?”
“I know I’ve committed an unforgivable wrong. I’m ready to atone. I’ll use everything I have to compensate the families of those who died, to give them a life free of worries. They’ll forgive me.” Garrick pleaded: “If I approach them with sincerity, they’ll forgive me. Mr. Wang, please, give me this chance to make amends.”
“With sincerity and money, the families of the dead will forgive you?” Ethan repeated, his voice laced with bitter sarcasm.
Indeed, the world was a cruel, heartless place.
Once someone was dead, even the most in
