Goodbye, Mr. Regret

Chapter 102

Chapter 94

The nurse saw Jessica signing and, blinking in sympathy, lamented, "She's so beautiful—what a shame she can't speak."

Henry could read Jessica's sign language. She was telling the nurse that she was his mother. He tensed, terrified she'd use her voice synthesizer and reveal the

truth.

Annoyance crept into his voice. "What are you waving your hands around for? No one else understands your sign language."

Jessica pulled out her phone, intent on using her voice ring to speak.

But Henry snatched her phone away before she could, turning to the nurse with a bright, practiced smile. "Ma'am, she's our housekeeper. My dad likes a quiet home, so he hired someone who doesn't talk."

Jessica froze.

Did he just say she was the housekeeper?

She'd seen this plot play out on TV-sons, ashamed of their mothers after making something of themselves, introducing them to others as the help or distant relatives. The mothers never got angry; they'd just cry quietly, terrified of embarrassing their child.

always despised those ungrateful sons with a

imagined that one day, she'd find herself in their

tears-the pain was like a knife twisting

gauze around Henry's arm and dabbed his

Henry,

pushed her away, his voice tinged with impatience. "I'm not a little kid anymore. I'm tough—I'm not scared

brave he was, smiled approvingly. "You're a brave

furrowed, but he bit down hard

had been his mother for six years-she knew better than anyone

the nurse finished taping the needle in place, Henry puffed up a little

"You did great, Henry. Last time you were here with your mom, you

time that Sheila was his mother, and guilt pricked at

out, and he grinned. "Well, with your mom around, you're supposed to act a

up, but then glanced at them curiously. "By the way, where's your

my dad on a

clenched into fists before

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