Lost Me Gained Regret

Chapter 243

It wasn’t so much sadness as it was envy. If Mom were still alive, she’d also look out for me.

I murmured in my heart, ‘Mom… Oh, how I miss you.”

“What are you blubbering about? Out of nowhere, from behind a massive pillar in the parking lot, Gregory emerged, frowning at me.

“Weren’t you all gung–ho about getting that divorce? Can’t bear to leave after just a few words exchanged?”

I hastily wiped away fny tears, sniffed, and mumbled, “It’s not that. The wind’s strong out here. Got something in my eye.”

“Ah.” He saw right through my lie, his sarcasm biting. “For something in your eye, you’re quite the crybaby.”

What a terrible joke.

Yet, my foul mood lifted a bit. “Didn’t you say you’d wait in the car? What are you doing out here?”

“Got stuffy.” He dropped those words and wandered ahead.

As we got into the car and the heater kicked in, I suddenly realized how cold I’d been from head to toe. It chilled me to the bone.

life, merging swiftly onto the main

“What was the real

2 5 &

needed a date. Then, it seemed like he was dragging me in as some

the slow–moving city traffic, with frequent red lights, even a sports car could only stop

me. “What

see the truth, to

me from competing with your dear god sister, Dorothy, over a man,”

ruined your plan the other day?” He rested one hand lazily on the window sill, the other on the

that, Lunderstood. Gregory wanted me to see the Myers family’s determination to have Bryant as a son–in–law. That way, my divorce from Bryant would speed up.

glanced at him. “So, should I thank

me dinner,

nod of thanks. Your

“You, of all people, don’t seem the type to be

“You have a unique

facing the Myers family like this today?” I asked

At most, my dad would yell at me a bit. That wouldn’t harm

wasn’t his first rodeo.

say something, when he casually lifted his eyelids. “Getting hit doesn’t matter. As long as I’m not dead,