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.

the line!”

to slap me, I caught her wrist

with Christine’s situation, Margaret’s drama was the least of my worries. “Get lost!”

strode away, my heart in turmoil over what could have happened

it was, that familiar black Maybach trailing my

was Bryant up to this time?

he really think I’d let Margaret slap me without consequence, and now he was coming to her

a red light, I dialed his number, asking, “Why are you following me?”

woman’s scoff came through

flatter

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about me. He wanted to accompany

paused, feeling as though she’d slapped me hard

was

deluding myself for the past three years.

at the police station, I didn’t even need to enter to know what Christine had done.

why

come to the police station in the

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

a cop led me to

Christine.