Lost Me Gained Regret

Chapter 157

A stock clerk pushing a cart interrupted us, “Excuse me, coming through.”

1 tugged Christine back and asked, “What were you saying?”

“Do you think Margaret could be Albert’s biological daughter?” Christine’s eyes sparkled with the thrill of gossip.

I frowned. “That seems a bit far-fetched. Margaret’s even older than Bryant by two years.”

Even if it were an affair, it wouldn’t have started that early, right?

“Why not?” Christine dismissed my doubt with a wave, excitedly diving into high society scandals. “You know how messy these rich people can get. Marrying one, keeping a few mistresses on the side, isn’t that business as usual?”

“But still…” I hesitated, “If Margaret was Albert’s flesh and blood, and considering how much Timothy despised Margaret, why didn’t Albert tell Timothy?”

That way, Timothy would have been kinder to his granddaughter.

at were

Christine paused, finding sense in my words, puzzled. “Yeah, you’re right. If Albert’s daughter, he wouldn’t just sit back and watch Bryant get involved with Margaret. That’s incest, right?”

nodded, not wanting to delve deeper, but Christine suddenly said, “No, something’s still

her forehead playfully and handed her a bag of tomato-flavored

Bryar and I would be worlds apart, let alone Albert and Margaret. It wouldn’t matter if they we father and daughter or, just as Christine had bluntly put it, shared the same

and me arriving first. When Mark showed up alone, Christine glanced at

saw through the awkwardness and asked, “Mark, Steven didn’t come?”

used to tag along

strained relationship between Steven and Christine, Mark

on a blind date. His family is pushing for a

marriage.

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momentarily stunned, feeling a sense of inevitable anger, though not completely surprised. I didn’t expect it to happen so soon.

Steven was

mine with

I would never have dreamed

I didn’t try to console Christine.

“Jane, you

place, but you’ve

jointly-designed?”