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,

moved in, tending to

was the kind of motherly love she’d always

her birth mother have

down the tangled emotions, and turned

glanced over her shoulder, her face marked by exhaustion

years of

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why don’t you take a break? Let

keep the blood circulating. “I’m fine, sweetheart. It’s not

down by the

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

forgotten. In the Sterling family, genuine care for

time was

some time off. I wanted to be here with you and Hiram for a

you don’t blame me, do you? I know I haven’t always been there

was painfully aware of the Sterling family’s favoritism. Hiram was the only son, the heir, while Charlotte was the daughter she’d adopted after losing her own child–a symbol of hope,

husband’s house, Rachel had no real say, and her husband never sided with her. She did what

could offer Charlotte.

she could just keep Charlotte fed and safe, that would be enough. Maybe once Charlotte married

never imagined Charlotte would end up

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