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.”

gave a noncommittal grunt

fingers 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‘ circle and won over the family elders, she’d have

didn’t come home that

for him, but not anymore. Whether he came home or not, it simply didn’t

to head to the hospital when, unfortunately, she ran into Tricia

them, but Tricia called out, “Dr.

turned. “Is there

Sterling, do

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

other.

you’re heading to the hospital, right? I’ll be going

we’re going the same way, I’ll have Evander give

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

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

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answered coldly, “No need. I have

reached out as if to stop her. “Don’t be so polite–after all, we work at the same

herself to swallow the anger rising in her chest. She couldn’t help but wonder if Tricia was doing all this on purpose–had she always known

yanked her arm free. “I said–no,

stumbled and fell to

shoving her. “You’re a mean lady!