Goodbye, Mr. Regret

Chapter 32

Chapter 32

Timothy strode over, looming above Jessica with a cold, disdainful glare.

"Don't think pretending to be sick means I'll let you off the hook," he snapped.

Jessica frowned slightly. One hand was hooked up to an IV, so instead of signing, she typed her response on her phone and held it up for him to read.

"I have no idea what you're talking about."

What responsibility did she have? She hadn't done anything wrong.

"When we got our marriage certificate, wasn't the deal to keep it secret? I thought we were on the same page. So why, of all times, did you have to make our marriage public now, hmm?"

On the same page? Jessica almost laughed in disbelief.

What woman marries the man she loves and doesn't want anyone to know about it? Keeping it secret was his decision, not hers.

She typed again: "I already explained this morning when I left the hospital. I keep my promises don't go blaming me for things I haven't done."

He sneered. "Are you really going to keep denying it? I checked the security footage. Two days ago, my father visited The Gilded Whisper Estates. I asked the house staff, and you were home that day."

clue

another message and showed him. "I told you, I

icy. "If anything happens to Sheila this time,

knives as

Jessica was left bewildered.

their marriage, and she certainly hadn't done anything to

few minutes later, Mabel came in

appetite. Only after Mabel gently coaxed her did she manage to eat a

still had plenty to do, and once she confirmed

her IV finished, Jessica called a taxi back to The Gilded Whisper Estates to change clothes—she was still in her pajamas from

barely finished getting dressed when there was a knock

answered. Two

is this Mr.

nodded. "Yes. And you

to deliver a

two carried a large,

froze. It was the piece Ines had exhibited at the gallery-the one Jessica had given her as a birthday

really sold it

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