Lost Me Gained Regret

Chapter 322

The questions were sharp, no doubt about it. But Gregory didn’t seem flustered at all. He gestured for me to come closer with a hook of his finger. “Lean in. I’ll tell you.”

I moved a few inches. “Go ahead.”

Given the limited space in the car and with no one else around except the driver, all the secrecy seemed a bit over the top.

He moved a bit closer, a mischievous twinkle in his eyes, testing the limits of annoyance.”I just can’t stand people who are too slow on the uptake.”

I straightened up, glaring at him. “So, should I be thanking you for enlightening me?”

“I wouldn’t mind,” he said with a polite smile.

He always held a cheeky demeanor like that. But I couldn’t discount his assistance earlier. I lowered my gaze. “Thanks for what you did back there.”

His fingers tapped casually against the windowsill. “Even if I hadn’t shown up, they would’ve let you go eventually.”

I smiled bitterly. “But not without making me suffer a bit more.”

With the scandal blowing up online, Dorothy would vent all

it all. “The longer you stay with the Myers family,

“Is he now…”

Bryant got caught between a rock and a hard place. On one hand, he was linked to the Myers family by marriage. On the other, he was stirring

“Worried about your ex, are

sarcasm was unmistakable.

looked at him. “Do you think Bryant would go to any lengths for me?”

Gregory lounged back

“Then why worry?”

since Timothy’s passing, the entire future of the Ferguson Group rested on his shoulders. How

“Didn’t peg you for someone who’s not love–struck.”

I shot back, mimicking

hint of threat. “What

sounded as if daring me to repeat any disparaging word, ready to cast me back out into the

to sound sincere. “I was saying you’re a once–in–a–lifetime kind of guy. Staying faithful to a fiancée lost for over two decades,

raised an eyebrow, pleased. “Go on. I’m

knew how to climb the ladder

to Gregory and asked, “Can we