Lost Me Gained Regret

Chapter 57

“It’s exactly as you see,” he said, his voice tinged with a blend of sorrow and weariness. “We, the Ferguson family, failed Alice. It was my failure to discipline my own son!”

Yeah, Alice was my late mother-in-law. Hearing this, I was plunged into deep shock.

I had always thought she died from complications during childbirth.

But she didn’t. She was pushed down the stairs when she was nine months pregnant.

And the person who did it? It was Teresa, the very woman who had been like a second. mother to Bryant, making herself a martyr to save him, only to end up in a vegetative State

My mind was a mess.

How could she show such kindness to Bryant, yet be the one who killed his birth mother? It defied all human logic…

Before I could sort through my thoughts, Timothy continued, “Can’t figure out why she could be so kind to Bryant, huh?”

“Yes…”

He scoffed, “Nothing but self-interest and calculation.”

“After the death of Bryant’s mother, my bewildered son insisted on marrying Teresa into the family. Teresa had tampered with the surveillance before acting, thinking she had covered her tracks. She played all her cards -crying, making scenes, even threatening to hang herself-pressuring me to give in.”

At this point, it dawned on me. “You managed to restore the surveillance footage?” I asked.

“Yes.”

teeth, “But my son was so bewitched, even with

fit of rage, Timothy hurled his

made me realize just how furious he

too worked up, Gary quickly

to let Teresa into the family. But there were conditions. One,

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had nothing to do with her.”

Otherwise, all the evidence

Premeditated murder.

would be enough to put

chill listening to all this.

the depth of animosity and rejection Timothy had for Teresa and her daughter,

Bryant remembered was merely a façade

“Does Bryant know

bear to tell

to hold back, offering only

to it but didn’t press

just Timothy, I too felt a

to realize the stepmother he was

what about

she know