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?”

drained his glass in

the admonition of a real husband–as

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his wife, she shouldn’t have to endure

what did he

she felt–he was the one

in front of her. “I’m back. Did

mind went momentarily

tonight because of that phone

the 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

for something like this. So she didn’t ask him

didn’t think that was asking

her. “You’re

Charlotte quickly added, “If you help me this one last time, I’ll agree to

darkened

reply when, just then, his

at his screen

It was Tricia.

away–he answered right in front of her.

was nothing like the one he used

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do… Could you

“I’ll be right there.”

He hung up.

Seeing him about to leave, she blurted out,

“We’ll talk another day.”

backward glance,

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