Goodbye, Mr. Regret

Chapter 245

The matter had been resolved, but it left a bad taste-these sorts of things were always considered inauspicious, and to let it spiral like this felt, to Phelps, deeply disrespectful to their ancestors.

He gave everyone in the Lawson family a harsh scolding, making it clear that if anything like this happened again, he wouldn't let it slide.

Afterward, a sense of discontent toward Jessica lingered throughout the family.

If she had just stayed home like she was supposed to, none of this would have happened.

But with the patriarch still seething, nobody dared voice their frustrations openly.

What should have been a cheerful family gathering for the festival had turned into a day shrouded in gloom, the atmosphere tense and unsettled.

Timothy lost his appetite for lunch entirely. With Jessica absent, he simply told Henry to stay at the old house for now.

Leaving the Lawson estate, Timothy got into his car and dialed Jessica's number.

She didn't answer.

He gripped his phone so tightly his knuckles went white. After a moment, he set it aside, started the engine, and headed home to The Gilded Whisper Estates.

and retrieved the pearl necklace and brooch

stored safely at the

his mother's keepsake. The brooch-one he'd chosen and bought

these things

first, he'd been angry

at home, none of this

realized that for seven years, Jessica had devoted herself to the Lawson

morning, when she came back to the Lawsons, people complained

single person had bothered to prepare the

Jessica's family was all gone, he'd

and

a flower shop, he stopped

simple memorial supplies, and got straight

to report he couldn't reach Mrs. Lawson; Timothy told him not to bother coming

called

are you?" he

Mrs. Lawson's family home," Allen replied, sounding

memorial, Jessica had refused to return to Riverside City with him and left in Herbert's car instead. Since Timothy had ordered him not to return without her, Allen had been waiting by the house ever since-without any sign of