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.

at the door, I pursed my lips, “I’m

“Okay.”

yet

b

door was pulled open from the inside, revealing Christine’s radiant face. “You’re back I heard some noise at the door and thought it was the delivery

in my apartment seemed

I joked, “So you expected me to come back hungry, hoping for takeout?”

not be a cook, but Mark

her voice towards the kitchen, “Right, Mark?”

then, “Mark’s here too?”

your new place, right? I thought to invite a few friends over. I just called Steven and Mark, didn’t bother

Chapter 38

when I noticed new decorations and trinkets

warmth spread through me, as I suddenly felt a genuine sense of belonging to this

from sunny to

you’re back?” Steven, who had been helping Mark in the kitchen, came running qut,

e door.

in his pocket, looked at him with a half-smile, “You

“Ahem…”

I thought you were busy…”

“I’m not busy.”