Cold husband burning regret

Regret Novel 98

“Charlotte, do you enjoy pushing my buttons?”

Evander’s grip tightened around her wrist, digging in until pain snapped Charlotte out of her fog. “So Mr. Howard is just as arrogant as I thought. Pushing your

buttons? Do I look like I have the time or reason?”

Evander didn’t reply. His eyes, steady and unreadable, fixed on her as if he could see straight through her every move.

“Let me go! That hurts!”

The pressure on her bones became unbearable. She couldn’t hold back anymore; her eyes stung with frustrated tears.

Evander let go instinctively.

Charlotte yanked her wrist free, rubbing the red marks where his hand had been. She’d had enough. “Evander, what do you want from me?”

She didn’t get it.

Hadn’t he always acted like she was invisible?

So why couldn’t he just ignore her now?

“I told you not to get too close to Jonathan.”

“Oh, so I’m supposed to answer to you? I never asked you about you and Tricia, so what gives you the right to meddle in my life?”

blank, impossible to read. “That’s

white as she dug her nails into her palm. Her heart felt cold and hollow, yet she laughed, the sound sharp and bitter. “Right. Of course it’s different. She’s your first love, the one no one else can compete with. So you get to cozy

hypocrisy might make him angry,

was calm, almost too calm. “I

him in disbelief, her silence thick with

have to catch you two in

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assumptions about

me and Jonathan.” Charlotte fired back,

it.”

Charlotte spun around, climbed into her car,

her, just as Charlotte’s car disappeared

street.

watched Charlotte vanish. “Evander, I finally get to leave the hospital today. You

it’s a big deal for Tricia.

a few words, then turned back to them. “Go ahead

of him. Evander got

word.

away, Tricia’s face drained of color. Hate