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."

he had brought this upon himself, I wasn't going to

at his expression and left the restaurant

If I went back to get the car

a long time even for an Uber. The crowd was thick, with many young couples along the roadside, suddenly kissing as they walked and then gazing at each other with silly smiles. Youth was so wonderful.

Frank had given, I realized that the neighborhood was the same one where

got out of the car

the

instantly, "Building 6,

Same building, same unit.

If it weren't for the one-unit-per-floor arrangement, it would probably be

away my phone and easily found the

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

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wheelchair, his sharp and

our

and said, "Alana said your leg was hurting

looked at me with cocked brows." don't need your

smiled. "Then I'll be

that, I

grabbed my wrist firmly, using

foyer, I steadied myself. "Didn't you say you didn't

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

nodded, pointing to a pair of house slippers on the floor.

"They're Alana's."

the shoe cabinet, retrieving a new pair of slippers from

when Frank said with