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?”

wanting to delve deeper, but Christine suddenly

none of our business, anyway.” I poked her forehead playfully and handed

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 bed. It woul be none of my concern anymore.

its local comfort food, with Christine and me arriving first. When Mark showed up alone, Christine glanced at him and

the awkwardness and

to tag along wherever

between Steven and Christine, Mark hesitated before saying, “He was caught up with something today.”

went on a blind date.

marriage.

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

with Steven was doomed from the start

mine with

dreamed

didn’t try to

a new topic. “Jane,

design contest and won first place, but you’ve

jointly-designed?”