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.

and we went up together. Standing at the door, I pursed

“Okay.”

yet he didn’t

b

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

in my apartment seemed to

you expected me to come back hungry,

not! I might not be a cook, but Mark

raising her voice towards

realized then, “Mark’s

new place, right? I thought to invite a few friends over. I just

Chapter 38

I noticed new decorations and trinkets

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

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

back?” Steven, who had been helping Mark in the kitchen, came running qut, his playful smile fading into guilt

e door.

at him with

“Ahem…”

to explain, “Bryant, I thought you were

“I’m not busy.”