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.

to life, merging swiftly onto the main road.

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

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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

glanced at me. “What do you think?”

make me see

competing with your dear god sister, Dorothy, over a man,” I said.

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

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

glanced at him. “So, should I thank

me dinner, or give

nod of thanks. Your choice.

“You, of all people, don’t seem

tensed, and he smiled, “You have a unique way

Myers family like

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

wasn’t his

his eyelids. “Getting hit doesn’t matter. As long as I’m not dead, I would keep