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?”

stayed blank, impossible to read.

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

might make him angry, might

voice was calm, almost too calm. “I

stared at him in disbelief, her silence

Do I have to

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assumptions about me and

and Jonathan.” Charlotte fired back, her words icy. “Whatever’s between us, leave Jonathan out

it.”

spun around, climbed into her car, and drove off without a

her, just as

street.

vanish. “Evander, I finally get to leave the hospital today. You promised you’d have dinner with

big deal for Tricia. Don’t let someone like

then turned back to them. “Go ahead

of him.

word.

drained