Ex-husband’s Regret by Lean

Chapter 401

Upon hearing this, Ryan seemed somewhat stunned and disheartened.

After a moment, he looked at me in surprise. "You're no even going to lie?"

"You rarely lied in the past as well," I smiled and answered calmly. I had heard too much before. He had never been one to deign to deceive.

"She ran away from home. I need to go find her."

"She's divorced. I'm afraid she might do something rash."

"She got into a car accident. I can't be at ease if I don't check on her."

Later on, he didn't even need to give a reason-he would just say, "I need to see her."

It was always, his sister. He couldn't ignore her.

It seemed that as long as there was that one layer of relationship, any little bit of my complaints would be seen as petty, and obstructing him would be almost like committing a crime.

It was quite ironic. It seemed to match the saying of "What goes around comes around."

Ryan probably never imagined that such a day would come.

He loosened his grip on his cutlery, which clattered onto the plate with a crisp sound, starkly noticeable in the otherwise serenely musical.

restaurant.

He rarely lost his composure, his voice rough as he asked, "Do you really have to go?"

1 picked up my bag, stood up, and said, "This is you being unreasonable. I never stopped you when you wanted to leave before.

Besides, I'm single now."

had brought this upon himself, I wasn't

back at his expression and left the restaurant with

the car and then went to Frank's place, it would take an extra two or three hours.

a long time even for an Uber. The crowd was thick, with many young couples along the roadside, suddenly kissing as they walked

I arrived at the location Frank had given, I realized that the neighborhood was the same

the car and sent him

the apartment

instantly, "Building 6,

Same building, same unit.

the one-unit-per-floor arrangement, it would probably be right

my phone and easily found the door,

several minutes before the door was pulled. open from the inside, accompanied by a lazy

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in a wheelchair, his sharp and stern face

our

said, "Alana said your leg was hurting and asked me to come check

looked at me with cocked brows." don't

smiled. "Then I'll be going

I turned to

using

"Didn't you say you

eyes were unfathomable as he said coldly, "It suddenly started hurting again, and now your help is needed. Is there

and nodded, pointing to a pair of house slippers on the

"They're Alana's."

and opened the shoe cabinet, retrieving a

when Frank said with a smile. "I heard you went to