Goodbye, Mr. Regret

Chapter 41

Chapter 41

Long, slender fingers danced across the keyboard. After a moment, he handed her the phone.

"Give it a try. This ring can speak too."

Jessica glanced at the screen. It was the same app Herbert had helped her download that night.

She froze, caught off guard.

Timothy pressed the phone into her hand, then bent down to gather up the fabric

on the table, stuffing it into his suitcase.

She stood abruptly and placed her hand firmly over his, stopping him.

With careful, practiced gestures, she signed, *I'm not going back.*

Timothy's face darkened at once, a flash of anger in his eyes. "I came all this way

to bring you home myself. What more do you want?"

The words had barely left his lips when his phone rang.

pocket, he saw Sheila's name on the screen

answered immediately.

Am I speaking to Timothy?" The voice on the other end

together.

blood. The last unit

understand. I'll take care of

the call and quickly dialed another number as he strode for the door. Moments later, the door closed behind him,

door jarred Jessica from her thoughts. She looked down at the ring

it in the

at her lips.

second, she'd almost believed he was sincere. She'd almost convinced herself that he bought her the voice-emitting ring

pulling the fabric from the suitcase and

***

city. By the time he reached the

reaching for her hand, his voice

was just going to the bathroom and slipped. Timothy, I'm

brimmed with

at her freshly bandaged wound,

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