Lost Me Gained Regret

Chapter 38

Otherwise, the Ferguson Group wouldn’t have ended up directly in Bryant’s hands.

“How about you? How have you been?” I lifted my gaze, looking up at the sharp lines of his jaw, and asked hesitantly.

“These three

years since we got married,” he managed a slight smile, sighed softly, and said, “it’s been good.”

That answer made me want to cry even more.

It was regret, wasn’t it? After all, if it hadn’t been for all those issues, we could have grown old together.

On our way back, we both remained silent, an unspoken agreement between us. Some things are better left unsaid.

He couldn’t truly change what was happening, and I couldn’t just live with it.

Better to let go now, while we could still look at each other without disdain.

Autumn days are short and the nights-long. Through the car window, the setting sun cast a golden glow over his figure.

“I’ll walk you up.” When we arrived at Riverview Estate, he spoke before I could.

the door, I

“Okay.”

nodded slightly, yet he

b

Christine’s radiant face. “You’re

in my apartment seemed to ease Bryant a

in, I joked, “So you expected me to come back hungry,

course not! I might not be a cook, but Mark makes delicious meals!”

at Bryant, raising her voice towards the

“Mark’s here

celebrating your new place, right? I thought to invite a few friends over. I just called Steven

Chapter 38

when I noticed new decorations and trinkets around the

through me, as I suddenly felt a

missed the clear shift in Bryant’s expression, from sunny to a cold dreariness, in

helping Mark in the kitchen, came running

e door.

with one hand in his pocket, looked at him with a half-smile,

“Ahem…”

to explain, “Bryant, I thought you

“I’m not busy.”