Cold husband burning regret

Regret Novel 85

Chapter 85

Hiram was stunned by what he’d just heard. When the shock wore off, fury took its place. He wrenched his arm free from Charlotte’s grasp and stormed up to Tricia, voice shaking with rage. “You liar! You’re the reason my sister got hurt! You promised you’d make a public apology, and now you’re going back on your word?”

“Hiram, don’t-”

Charlotte tried to hold him back, but it was too late.

Before Hiram could reach Tricia, Evander stepped forward and knocked him to the floor with a swift kick. At a signal from Natalie, two security guards moved in, pinning Hiram down.

“Let go of me! I didn’t do anything wrong!” Hiram’s voice cracked with anger and frustration. “If it weren’t for her, my sister wouldn’t have been attacked–she made it happen, I have the recording to prove it!”

Evander’s eyes darkened as he turned to look at Tricia.

Tears streamed down Tricia’s face, her voice trembling. “It’s not true, Evander. He forced me to say those things. He said if I didn’t, he’d kill me…”

“Miss Winthrop, I admit my brother was wrong to kidnap you. I can apologize on his behalf for that. But he’s not a killer.”

When she’d first heard about Hiram kidnapping Tricia, Charlotte hadn’t been afraid for Tricia’s life. She knew her brother–he would never go that far. Her real fear was that Hiram, reckless and impulsive as ever, might seriously hurt Tricia like he had with that college classmate, ruining his own future in the process.

“Dr. Sterling!” Tricia’s voice rang out, strong and clear. “I was the one who was kidnapped! Of course you’d defend him–he’s your brother!”

“That’s exactly why-”

cut her off, his patience clearly worn thin. His

ice.

someone. That’s a crime. Are you really going to defend

plain and simple. If Evander pressed charges for Tricia, Hiram would go to prison, even if he hadn’t

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me to say those things. I’m afraid he’ll use those recordings to threaten me in the future…” Tricia’s jaw clenched.

nodded to

Hiram’s phone, but he clung to it desperately. “This is the proof my sister is innocent! Don’t

his resistance, the guards eventually pried the phone

with satisfaction.

“Don’t

her!”

about the recording? If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. Why

flashed in Tricia’s eyes. She

recording she needed to erase. There was her secret deal with Mrs. Fontaine–she

eyes reddened further. “Dr. Sterling, you’re still protecting a criminal. Or did you

hoarse. “How dare you accuse my sister like that, you

handed the

of triumph passed through Tricia’s

think they