Lost Me Gained Regret

Chapter 52

“Is that all?” I asked, pushing for more.

“Yeah, that’s all.”

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I raised an eyebrow, “You don’t like him at all?”

“A little, I guess.”

After Christine replied, she suddenly let out a sarcastic laugh, “But what’s the use of liking someone? My mom used to say she married my dad because they were madly in love.”

“But that didn’t stop them from throwing dishes at each other when they fought. Is there anything like true and lasting love in the world?

I knew, deep down, she didn’t believe in love, not even familial love.

After her father’s business went belly up, he turned to drinking, gambling, and started to lash out, hitting both his wife and Christine.

Her mom just disappeared one day, leaving her to grow up with that excuse of a father, taking beatings more times than she could count.

I wanted to lighten the mood, so I changed the subject with a grin, “But why have your so good to me all these years?”

been

crying their eyes out on the rooftop in the dead of winter, snot

me touch my

when I saw her and

was trying to kill her and started to

just trying to clear her head, not jump off, but I almost gave her a

incident turned us from mere roommates into

let out a small laugh and casually threw a bag into my lap, “Have breakfast. Got you some bagels and yogurt, take

love

“I clearly only

bother me, which was a

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when I

when I left work that evening, I

one night to get her a new car, painted exactly like mine, and parked right next to

even commented on how close you have to be to someone to get matching cars in

a fishbone stuck in my

me a hard time, then showed up at my doorstep, claiming