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

real reason you asked me

2 5 &

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

frequent red lights, even a sports car could only stop and go.

at me. “What do you think?”

me see

with your dear god sister, Dorothy, over a man,”

hand lazily on the window sill, the other on the steering wheel. Tm giving

Gregory wanted me to see the Myers family’s determination to have Bryant as a son–in–law. That

glanced at him. “So, should I thank you?”

me dinner, or give me

a nod of thanks. Your

people, don’t seem

and he smiled, “You have a unique

Myers family like this today?” I asked

At most, my dad would yell at me a bit. That

wasn’t his

when he casually lifted his eyelids. “Getting hit doesn’t matter. As long as I’m not dead, I would keep mentioning my missing fiancée. Otherwise,

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