Goodbye, Mr. Regret

Chapter 43

Did he... still care about their marriage?

"Miss Sheila? Are you listening?"

Sheila quickly replied with a warm smile, "Of course I'm listening. Maybe your mom has her reasons. When your dad gets home tonight and finds out your mom returned the ring, he's bound to be upset. You should try to talk to her, alright?"

"Miss Sheila, you're always so understanding."

Henry suddenly felt that his mother had changed-she was starting to act a little unreasonable.

Sheila chatted with Henry for a while longer.

When Mabel called Henry for dinner, he reluctantly hung up the phone.

He looked down at the ring in his hand, thinking, Miss Sheila was right. Dad meant well, giving Mom a ring with a special little feature, but Mom refused to accept it. If Dad found out, he'd definitely be angry.

So Henry tucked the ring away, deciding not to let Timothy know.

At dinner, he even told Mabel to keep it a secret.

Mabel thought Henry had a good point. Mr. Wheeler had gone out of his way to give his wife a ring-probably to make up and reconcile. But Mrs. Wheeler sent it back. If Mr. Wheeler found out, he'd get upset again, and that wouldn't help matters between them.

agreed to keep

She stayed in her room, working

huge, and with a household like theirs, parties and gatherings were hard to avoid. If she could display her paper cuttings at one of those events, maybe it would help fulfill

Jessica pour her heart

office, he ordered dinner

finally heading back to the house. The mansion was pitch

their quarters in the back, leaving the family their privacy for

owners needed anything, they'd just

him, no matter how late he got home, there

Jessica would doze off waiting, but at the slightest noise, she'd come

the door to total darkness—none of

along the wall for the switch

down to get his slippers from the shoe

against the overhead

darkened. "Jessica?"

No answer.

house felt icy

slippers and pushed

perfectly made.

the doorknob, knuckles turning white as