Cold husband burning regret
Chapter 10
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?”
his glass in one
words almost sounded like the admonition
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that, as his wife, she shouldn’t have
what did
she felt–he was the one who brought it upon
her. “I’m back. Did you want to talk
mind went
home early tonight because of that
strange feeling stirring in her chest, she was silent for several seconds. “Hiram is being held at the police station. I’d like you to help find
wouldn’t stick his neck out for something like this. So she didn’t ask him to pull strings, just to get Hiram a lawyer–a
think that
“You’re asking me
he’d refuse outright, Charlotte quickly added, “If you help me this one last time, I’ll agree to
darkened almost
seemed about to reply when, just then, his phone
at his screen
It was Tricia.
right in front
tone was nothing like the one
keeps asking for you. I
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do… Could
“I’ll be right there.”
He hung up.
Seeing him about to leave, she blurted out, “Mr. Howard,
“We’ll talk another day.”
a backward glance,
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