Goodbye, Mr. Regret

Chapter 280

It was Henry calling.

Timothy answered, putting the phone on speaker—after all, Jessica would want to hear their son's voice too.

"Dad, where did you go? Did you forget I have the kids' arts and crafts competition today?"

Both Timothy and Jessica were well aware of Henry's big day.

After their recent family event, Henry had insisted Sheila accompany him, not wanting the other kids to tease him about his mom being unable to speak.

"I'm on my way to pick up your mom. We'll all go together, the three of us."

Jessica shot Timothy a sideways glance, raising her hand, ready to refuse. But before she could, Henry's voice piped up from the phone, "Dad, I already asked Miss Sheila to come with me. Remember? We agreed she'd keep me company! She'll be here soon-we're just waiting on you."

Thinking back, Timothy felt a twinge of guilt.

He hadn't put a stop to it the first time, and now Henry's impatience with his mother was starting to show-something Timothy found harder and harder to ignore.

and she was

"I'll be

tucked his phone away and turned to Jessica, looking a bit sheepish. "I'll take Henry to the competition first," he said. "Once it's over, I'll come back, and we can

hurry up and leave-she didn't want him delaying her own

hand and

off the view

glanced down at the ring on

she'd returned it, not wanting to accept the gesture. This time, though, she

ever used its special voice function or not, the diamond alone was worth a

to be left penniless because

tucked it into her purse,

stop was Herbert's

Herbert did when he saw her was to take out the Voice Emitting Necklace he'd

just to avoid any awkwardness. But now that you're getting divorced, l hope you don't mind. You've seen for yourself how much trouble is communicating with lawyers or anyone else. This makes things

it with a grateful smile, reaching out to

marriage with Timothy had reached its breaking point. There was no reason to care about appearances