Goodbye, Mr. Regret

Chapter 144

Timothy's sharp, handsome features were so dark with anger, it was as if a storm cloud hung over his face. Whatever patience he had left was vanishing fast.

"Jessica." His voice was icy, each word razor-edged. "Have I been too lenient with you?"

He'd compromised again and again, thinking she'd finally meet him halfway.

But instead he let out a short, humorless laugh.

Without warning, Timothy grabbed her wrist, his grip harsh and unyielding.

A fierce pain shot up Jessica's arm, and before she could react, he'd all but manhandled her into the car.

The door slammed shut behind her.

She reached out, trying to open it, but Timothy had already locked it. He strode around to the driver's side, only unlocking the doors once he was seated behind the wheel.

Jessica tried again to reach for the handle, but Timothy pulled her back, his hand firm and unbending.

"Must you ruin everything?" he snapped.

Mother's Love" a hundred times as punishment, then took him to the amusement park as a reward. He'd insisted Jessica come along,

all that trouble, and she still didn't understand

gracious wife who

she'd been disappointing

I'm

the amusement park —whether you like it or not! Who gave you the right to say no to

him right

he really going to let one

yanked the seatbelt across

beside her-so distant, so cold, a faint, resigned smile

Timothy from last night felt like a

that she'd ever believed it. From the day she married him, Jessica was under no illusions

mute since childhood, she'd learned to swallow countless jabs and taunts;

everyone has their

words cut through her last line of

woman, a legal citizen-she had the

The self-restraint she'd bottled up for days finally erupted. Jessica signed furiously, *Is it because I can't speak that you think I'm easy to bully? That you can threaten and force me just because you have money and power? If you're so tough, why don't you go claim your real

care if she made him angrier. Her hands moved rapidly, signing, *So what if you're so capable? All you know how to do