Regret Novel 107

Evander’s words hit her like a bucket of ice water, dousing the last flicker of hope and affection in her chest. She stared at him, disbelief and humiliation warring with a cold, unnatural calmness. Anger seethed beneath the surface, but she held herself together.

So it was true–when your heart hurt the most, sometimes you couldn’t even cry.

Now, she could only find it laughable.

“You blame me for taking her place for six years? Fine. I’ll give it back to her. Problem solved, right?”

Charlotte shrugged off Evander’s hand, ready to leave, but his grip tightened suddenly around her arm. His eyes were dark and chilling. “What did you just say?” “I said I’ll give her place back. I’m giving you the chance to make it up to her.”

She jerked her arm free and strode out the door.

Evander stood frozen, his expression growing stormier by the second, as if something precious was slipping from his grasp, something he could no longer

control.

She thinks she can just leave whenever she wants?

Evander snatched up his phone and dialed.

Charlotte made her way to the hospital.

She lingered outside the room for a long moment, her gaze fixed on the sight of her mother, Rachel, sitting by Hiram’s bedside. Since Hiram had been hospitalized,

in, tending to him

the kind of

her birth mother have done

together, swallowed down

shoulder, her face marked

years of

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Let

a tired smile, gently massaging Hiram’s arm to keep the blood circulating. “I’m fine, sweetheart. It’s not like I have anything

down by

the way, didn’t you have work today? I stopped by your department to bring you

care for

this time

time off. I wanted to be

blame me, do you?

only son, the heir, while Charlotte was the daughter she’d adopted after losing her own

husband never sided with her. She did what she

could offer Charlotte.

be enough. Maybe once Charlotte

imagined Charlotte would end

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