Lost Me Gained Regret

Chapter 58

Now, with him making this simple request, I had no reason to refuse.

Bryant and I were already living separately anyway. A divorce paper was just a formality to make the separation clearer, nothing urgent.

Besides, Timothy’s eightieth birthday was just a month away. It would be here before we

knew it.

Gary walked me out of the study.

“Mr. Ferguson is just looking out for you and the young master, hoping you’d take some more time to think things over,” he said gently.

I was about to respond when my phone buzzed with a call.

An unknown landline number.

“Hello, is this a family member of Christine Jackson?”

“Yes, speaking.”

“We’re calling from the RiverCity Police Department. Could you come down here as soon as possible?”

Panic set in before I could even ask for details, and the line went dead.

I rushed downstairs, only to be confronted by an irate Margaret the moment I stepped out

of the elevator.

crossed the

me, I caught

Margaret’s drama was the least of my worries. “Get

shrugged off her grip and strode away, my heart in turmoil over what could have happened to

Maybach trailing my car, adding to my

was Bryant up to

Margaret slap me without consequence, and now he was

number, asking, “Why

came through the speaker.

flatter

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was Margaret, her tone sugary sweet. “Bry is just worried about me. He wanted to accompany me to the police station. This

feeling as though she’d slapped me

She was correct.

had been deluding myself for the past three years.

didn’t even need to enter to know what

why

Margaret had come to the police station in the dead of

parked at the Ferguson Group earlier, still without a license plate, was now a wreck, almost reduced

cop led

Christine.