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.

to life, merging swiftly onto the

the real reason

2 2 5 &

first, I thought maybe he needed a date. Then, it seemed like he was dragging me

frequent red lights, even a sports car could only stop

glanced at me. “What

make me see the truth, to

me from competing with your dear god sister,

I ruined your plan the other day?” He rested one hand lazily on the window sill, the other on the steering wheel. Tm

family’s determination to have Bryant as a son–in–law. That way, my divorce from Bryant would

at him. “So, should I thank you?”

Buy me dinner, or

a nod of thanks. Your

people, don’t seem

“You have a unique way of complimenting

the Myers family like this today?” I

yell at me a bit. That wouldn’t harm a bit. If he hits me, my granddad will chase him

seemed that wasn’t his first rodeo.

as I’m not dead, I would keep mentioning my missing

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