Lost Me Gained Regret

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It was Dorothy.

She stood in a puddle of what looked disturbingly like blood, her white ankle boots soaked through, as she watched me halt the action of closing the door. Slowly, she withdrew her hand and crossed her arms in front of her chest. “Jane, I’d advise you to back off. Stop messing around with Bryant.”

That she found my address so quickly was alarming.

I frowned, “Whether it’s you or Margaret, you’d better check yourself into a hospital or better yet, go bother Bryant. Don’t come here bothering me.”

“Huh, cut the act!” She glanced inside my house with disdain. I’ve done my homework. Without marrying Bryant, how could someone like you, with both parents gone and broke, afford such a place?”

She lifted her chin, exuding the kind of arrogance only the wealthy possess, in full display.

My patience wore thin, and I replied coldly, “Oh, what about you? If it weren’t for the luck of being adopted by the Myers family, would you even be here, speaking like this, boldly meddling in someone else’s marriage?”

could hit where it hurt. Dorothy shouldn’t expect me to play nice if she stepped on my

to slap me, but I pushed her away, glaring at her foot nearly stepping inside my home, my gaze filled

glaring at me with hatred. “You’ll see. “Since you don’t want

being nice?” I shot back sarcastically, “Ms. Myers, I really can’t match your

snapped, “So, you insist on clinging to the

Bryant’s capabilities, do you think I could refuse if he wanted a divorce?”

genuinely couldn’t understand why they were all troubling me. If anyone didn’t want me to have peace and refused a divorce, it was Bryant, not me. They feared Bryant too much and

the current troubles of the Ferguson Group, a marriage alliance with the

I smiled, offering my sincerest blessings. “Then let me wish you a happy marriage and a

to close

non–confrontational stance, Dorothy still wasn’t satisfied and arrogantly stopped me, gritting her teeth. “You think I can’t do anything to you? Yeah. Here’s RiverCity, unlike Vista Town, where I can

a cold

so what was she still venting about?

what I implied, her eyes widening in fury. “Do you even know what standing the Myers family has? If I got into it with you, not even