Goodbye, Mr. Regret

Chapter 207

She thought, Larkin would definitely love this.

After all, it was Larkin who had given the photo to the gallery in the first place.

Once the piece was framed, the shop owner wrapped it carefully in a layer of crimson cloth to protect it on the road.

Jessica paid for everything, left the delivery address, and scheduled for it to arrive later that evening.

The papercut was quite large-nearly six feet long-making it impossible to carry home herself.

She'd been up until nearly 2 a.m. last night, then woke at dawn to work on it, finally finishing by late afternoon.

Fortunately, she hadn't lost her touch. If her hands weren't steady, there simply wouldn't have been enough time.

As Jessica stepped out of the framing shop, her phone buzzed with a message from Vince.

"Jessica, I'm outside your building. I came to pick you up-are you not home?"

She hadn't expected Vince to show up in person.

"I'm out, but I'll be back right away," she replied.

"I'll wait for you."

When Jessica arrived home, she found two people standing at her door.

One carried an impressively large bag, while the other struggled with several boxes in his arms.

"Jessica, open up!"

sort of easy charm that made people want to trust

was planning, but she couldn't

unlocked the door and let them in. Vince stepped inside and said, "This is the makeup artist I arranged.

Larkin's gift, had completely forgotten about

gala tonight, after all-no way she could show up

quickly typed a message on her phone:

wouldn't have time to get everything ready, living way out here. Go on, get changed and let the makeup artist work her

makeup artist to

the living room. He'd already spoken to Timothy, asking him not to come by, but the

sure Jessica

a legend in

business world, practically

slouch himself he was even a

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had to

behind Timothy

of ruthless skill.

wasn't much that could throw Timothy

there truly nothing that

Mrs. Timothy Lawson. Vince could easily guess why: the Lawson family would never allow it, not with

Lawsons probably didn't want to admit that Timothy had

then, why had Timothy married her? And if he had, why keep it a secret for so

the answers would come to