Lost Me Gained Regret

Chapter 136

I almost blurted it out, but I held back at the last second. It wouldn’t have made any

difference anyway.

I forced a smile, “You’re like a modern-day knight in shining armor. Can I ask you to do one more good deed next month?”

“What is it?” he asked.

I said quietly, “Come with me to get our divorce papers.”

The grip on my arm tightened, and I could feel his fingers tren le before everything went silent between us.

After a tense moment, the elevator doors suddenly opened, rev aling a loving couple stepping out.

Bryant seemed momentarily distracted, and I took the opportunity and stepped into the elevator..

to slip my wrist away

As I pressed the button to close the doors, a sense of relief washed over me for the first time in a long while.

Separation was the best option.

It was the only option.

That night, whether it was because things were finally getting resolved, or I was just exhausted, I slept until past nine the next morning.

Even Christine leaving for work didn’t wake me up.

She had left a pot of oatmeal with bacon bits in the kitchen for me.

I ended up eating a lot, wondering why I was so hungry,

sickness, of course, my appetite

to the bathroom, it would feel like everything was

I sat in the sunlight, continuing my work on the

just needed

few details and

stretch my stiff neck and shoulders, my

1/3

10:03

Chapter 136

answered,

want

are you talking about?” I was utterly bewildered.

His tone softened, “Your uncle came to see me, said you cried?”

instantly

had meddled

didn’t respond, Bryant tried to coax me, Jane, we have ‘t reached a point where

fist, asking, “Where’s he now?”

“He just left.”

“Got it.”

I’m saying is-”

up before he

was even happening!

and remembering Christine’s motherly advice, I also grabbed a beige wool

got to the hospital, Aunt Cheryl wasn’t there.

open, reeking of cigarette smoke. Allen and Leroy were

on the coffee table was filled with cigarette

caregivers, having devoured all the hospital-provided