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 pursed

“Okay.”

yet

b

door was pulled open from the inside, revealing Christine’s radiant face. “You’re back I heard some

apartment seemed to

in, I joked, “So you expected me

be a cook, but Mark makes delicious

glanced at Bryant, raising her voice towards the

“Mark’s here too?”

place, right? I thought to invite a few friends over. I just called Steven and Mark, didn’t bother with the others you’re not too close with.”

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and trinkets around the place. It

suddenly felt a genuine sense of belonging

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

helping Mark in the kitchen, came running qut, his playful smile fading into guilt upon seeing Bryant

e door.

looked at him with

“Ahem…”

to explain, “Bryant, I thought you were

“I’m not busy.”