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.

of his suit pocket, he saw Sheila's name

answered immediately.

Sheila's attending physician. Am I speaking to Timothy?"

knitted together. "What happened to

lost a lot of blood. The

take care of

for the door. Moments later, the door closed behind

the door jarred Jessica from her thoughts.

placed it in the velvet box Timothy had left

her lips. How foolish

For one fleeting second, she'd almost believed he was sincere. She'd almost convinced herself that he bought her the voice-emitting ring because it bothered him

head, pulling the fabric from the suitcase and hunching over her sketches

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to be delivered as he sped through the city. By the time he

her, immediately reaching for her hand, his voice

slipped. Timothy,

brimmed

at her freshly bandaged wound, his voice

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