Cold husband burning regret

Regret Novel 5

Evander’s face darkened. Just as he was about to let go of Tricia, she gripped his arm tightly. “Evander, I’m still not feeling well. Would you come with me to pick up my medicine?”

He frowned, glancing back in the direction where a figure had just disappeared, then gave a curt nod.

Evander accompanied Tricia to the pharmacy to get her prescription. As they walked back, Tricia glanced at him and noticed how distracted he seemed. Smiling, she stepped closer. “Evander, Hans wants to attend a private kindergarten, but he doesn’t have the right paperwork. I was thinking… maybe you could have him temporarily registered under your name?”

Afraid he’d refuse, Tricia quickly added, “Don’t worry–it’s only temporary. I promise, no one will ever know.”

Evander fixed her with an unreadable stare.

Tricia didn’t dare look away. Instead, she nervously clenched her fingers. “Evander, are you… upset with me?”

“It’s not appropriate for Hans to be registered under my name,” he said, his expression unchanged. “But I can have my mother officially recognize him as her stepson.”

Tricia froze.

A stepson to the Howards…

That would make Hans the same generation as Evander!

Her own son, turned into Evander’s “little brother“-what did that make

her?

Evander’s gaze sharpened. “Are you unhappy with this arrangement?”

Tricia buried her resentment beneath a polite facade. “No… whatever you

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think is best.”

grunt and said nothing

into her palm, bitterly dissatisfied. Still, she reminded herself–some things couldn’t be rushed. As long as her son made it into the Howards‘

didn’t come

him, but not anymore. Whether

head to the hospital when, unfortunately, she ran into Tricia and her son

past them, but Tricia called out,

“Is there something you

her. “Dr. Sterling, do you… not like

Charlotte replied. It wasn’t a matter of liking or disliking–there simply wasn’t any need for it. They barely

other.

good to hear. Oh, you’re heading to

same way, I’ll have Evander give you a ride

expression tightened. So that’s where he’d spent the night–with

wasn’t even final, yet he couldn’t wait to crawl into another

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answered coldly, “No need. I have

so polite–after all, we work at the

this on purpose–had she always known about Charlotte and Evander’s relationship? Was that why

arm free. “I said–no, thank

and fell to the

his mother on the floor, Hans rushed at Charlotte, shoving her. “You’re