Goodbye, Mr. Regret

Chapter 186

Timothy stubbed out his cigarette in the ashtray, his movements crisp and sharp.

"What did you just say?"

"My little sister has a pink birthmark on her chest. It's kind of private my family's never talked about it outside. But I want to use your data analysis to help find her, so I'm telling you now. It's heart-shaped."

Timothy's dark eyes grew even more inscrutable, shadows flickering in their depths.

He felt his heart pounding, more forcefully than usual.

His voice trembled ever so slightly. "Left side or right?"

"Upper left. My mother says it's about the size of a pinky finger. No idea if it'll grow

as she does. If your data turns up anyone with a heart-shaped pink birthmark in

that spot, pull their files for me. I'll send someone to check it out."

Timothy's long, elegant fingers curled into a fist.

A faint ringing sounded in his ears; he barely registered the rest of Vince's words.

Could it be Jessica?

Timothy's lips set in a tight, cold line.

He didn't speak for a long while.

"Timothy, are you listening?"

"I am."

it would've put a dent in the Zimmerman Group's renewable energy business. I had no choice. I'm sorry. My mom doesn't have much time

against you. It's

social ties tangled up in ways outsiders could never understand. With things

everyone else from

Just... keep an eye out

"I will."

go. You're still recovering-don't

ended, Timothy reached for the pack of cigarettes

smoke drifted from his lips and nose, curling slowly into

he was just

Zimmerman family's youngest hadn't

Jessica was twenty-seven.

with identical ones wasn't that

had the same faint blue circular birthmark on their

coincidences like that didn't happen

Impossible. Absolutely impossible.

year's difference in age-he clung

heaviness in his chest seemed to ease

and found Jessica leaning against the

"Something you need?"

her index and ring fingers together a silent demand for

So persistent.

he, Timothy Lawson, head of Lawson Industries, really

a look, then walked past, heading out to his car. When