Lost Me Gained Regret

Chapter 62

“No, not at all.”

1 scrambled for an excuse, “I was just grabbing something.”

“That something?”

He gestured towards a delivery bag sitting on the dining table.

Feeling the awkwardness of being caught in a lie, I touched my nose, “Didn’t I tell the delivery guy not to ring the bell?”

“He didn’t ring the bell.”

“Then how did you know?”

“He knocked.”

I was speechless, internally cursing the delivery guy’s cleverness.

Walking over, I started to unpack the bag, ready to dig in, when Bryant placed a steaming bowl of seafood chowder in front of me..

“Grandpa said you didn’t eat much tonight, had the leftover seafood sent over.”

“And the chowder…?”

“I made it.”

was serious, his voice calm and cool, “I took a shower before

in my tracks, leaving me surprised.

telling me that he’d cleaned up, wasn’t “dirty” anymore before he made

the steam from the chowder blurring my vision, and took several bites before I

you really don’t have to

me

want to become someone

out, tucking a strand of hair

look out for each other?” After saying that, he urged, “Eat

if we had returned to

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still that gentle

agreed to a

“In the past, it was always you taking care of me, taking care of

heart stirred, but I remained

Logic didn’t allow it, yet my emotions desperately clung to

to carefully choose

never believed we reached a point where divorce was the only option,