Goodbye, Mr. Regret

Chapter 96

"Ma'am?"

Mabel stepped in front of the TV, smiling brightly. "Have you had breakfast yet?"

That only made Jessica more suspicious.

She gently moved Mabel aside and glanced at the screen. The camera lingered on Timothy for a moment before cutting away.

The news shifted back to the anchor, who began introducing other stories.

Timothy didn't appear again.

Jessica checked the schedule: it was the morning news.

So Timothy had made headlines first thing in the morning.

Mabel let out a quiet sigh of relief. Jessica, meanwhile, grabbed her phone and began typing a message into her text-to-speech app.

"Mabel, did you block the TV because you saw Timothy with someone else?"

The app's gentle female voice rang out. Mabel, too flustered to wonder where the voice was coming from, immediately shook her head. "N-no, of course not!"

her a skeptical

voice just come from?"

recognized it instantly—it was the ring Jessica had returned

you. I heard

the subject, Mabel," Jessica pressed. "What exactly was on

gentle voice sounded

it. Look at how much Timothy cares about you. Henry was worried you'd return his gift and Timothy would be upset, so he asked me to help keep it quiet. But now the ring's back on your finger, which means Henry must have talked to Timothy, and Timothy wasn't angry. He gave it back to you himself. Both Timothy and Henry care about you a

mind was a tangled

of paper, covered

event-Sheila had

Sallie's strong reaction to

simply couldn't convince herself

really just

her anywhere. There was

her phone-she

phones; she could use her own to type and

going to cut it this

master bedroom, settled into

up almost

put it on speaker, and was just about to type