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

thoughts. “What was the real reason you asked me here today?”

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

lights, even a sports car could

glanced at me. “What

me see the truth, to

god sister, Dorothy, over a man,” I said.

other day?” He rested one hand lazily on the window sill, the other on the steering wheel. Tm giving it back to

have Bryant as a son–in–law. That way, my divorce from Bryant would

him. “So, should

me dinner, or give

nod of thanks. Your

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

smiled, “You have

family like this today?”

my dad would yell at me a bit. That wouldn’t harm a bit. If he

that wasn’t his

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