Goodbye, Mr. Regret

Chapter 535

He could actually write something like that.

His lips twitched awkwardly, feeling almost too embarrassed to hit send.

But finally, with a reckless determination, he pressed the button.

Jessica's phone chimed several times in a row-messages from Timothy.

She glanced at the pictures and read through the three texts.

A wry smile tugged at Jessica's lips-equal parts amused and defeated.

If he'd said things like this even a few times in the past seven years, maybe she wouldn't have ended up so heartbroken and numb.

Now, the affection she once longed for from him was no longer something she needed.

The vine of love that had once grown in her heart had long since withered and died; no matter how much water he poured on it now, it would never come back to life.

She shut off her phone and went to bed.

Timothy sat there gripping his phone, waiting for her reply.

He waited half an hour.

An hour.

Nothing.

door. "Sir, lunch is

at the time on his phone-noon. It must be past midnight where

be asleep,

had to

that evening, right before bed, Vince scrolled through Twitter and saw the flood of praise for Timothy.

had really pulled off a

credit, he'd managed to gild his own reputation

had to hand

the divorce had become

drop of value

operator-Vince shuddered to think what kind of

taken

kept doom-scrolling through Twitter, only

new

Without a

but admire Timothy's knack for managing publicity. By now, the comments were

were singing Timothy's

if Timothy had kept his marriage secret because

so beautiful, he was afraid to

of the comment and sent it

clear this

was in the middle of lunch when his phone buzzed. He set down his

checked his messages-Vince

expect me to

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