Regret Novel 10

Charlotte pressed her lips together. If she remembered correctly, Evander knew her relationship with the Sterling family had always been strained.

She vividly recalled one particular year when Grandma Rosemary celebrated her birthday. Both of her parents attended, and her father drank far too much. He ended up saying things he shouldn’t have.

She could still remember the look on the Howards‘ faces that night.

Trying to diffuse the situation, Charlotte stepped forward to calm her father, only for him to shove her aside.

She fell, shattering a wine glass, and slivers of glass sliced open her palm.

At the time, she hadn’t blamed her father. He was drunk, after all–maybe it was just an accident.

But what she couldn’t forgive was Evander, standing there watching, cold

and detached.

Back then, he hadn’t offered her a single word of comfort.

And now…

Now he cared to ask?

Charlotte’s gaze grew distant. “Is there even a point in asking?”

He gave a short, derisive laugh. “Pathetic.”

Charlotte’s fingers clenched tight, her face draining of color.

“You’re Mrs. Howard, and you let someone hit you? What else would you

call it?”

glass in one

almost sounded like the admonition of a real husband–as if

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saying that, as his wife, she shouldn’t

what did

was the one who

rose slowly and stopped in front of her. “I’m back. Did you want to talk about

mind went momentarily

early tonight because of that

strange feeling stirring in her chest, she was silent for several seconds. “Hiram is

something like this. So she didn’t ask him to pull strings, just to get Hiram a lawyer–a more measured

that

“You’re asking

me this one last time, I’ll agree to any condition–including a

eyes darkened

when, just then, his phone

his screen

It was Tricia.

away–he answered right in front of

nothing like the one he used

keeps asking for you.

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to do… Could

“I’ll be right there.”

He hung up.

she blurted out, “Mr. Howard, can you at least

“We’ll talk another day.”

backward glance,

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