Chapter 339

“Silly girl,” she chuckled. “If I didn’t know everything about you, why would I have brought you into our home? I also know about your ex–husband, Bryant.”

“That means…”

Something dawned on me, and I couldn’t help but ask, “When Dorothy brought Bryant over that time… you already knew?”

“I did it on purpose to give him a hard time!”

She raised her eyebrows, “If he can’t even protect his own willing

“Exactly, he deserves it.”

he deserves it.”

“Listen to me, dear, Bryant might be a good man, but he’s too complicated. Life with him would be too exhausting, too bitter.”

“We’re already divorced,” I said with a smile.

She probed further, “Have you truly given up on him?”

“I have.” I looked down at my abdomen, my voice tinged with bitterness. “We almost had a child, but he chose to save someone else over me, and we lost the baby.”

It was a complete letting go, at that moment.

followed only made me think that it was better not to have started anything in the first place.

to fix a broken mirror, it’s still broken. The cracks are always there as a

can piece a

genuinely a great guy. He might seem indifferent at times, but once he cares about someone or something, it’s for

sighed with a smile, “I’m not ready

abandoned

And yet…

hit the nail on the head, “Do you feel

*Yes.”

that a woman who’s divorced is

was interested in me, tried everything to stop it.

prestigious family like

more

scolded me gently, her voice calm and steady, “Let me tell you, how a man or a family treats you is never about whether you’ve been married before, how beautiful you are, and so on. It’s all about their character. Only problematic families need these baseless things to

assured, they wouldn’t mind these things.”

hit me like a pebble in a lake, stirring my heart, but

Gregory…

ever be a stand in, I never even considered

better not

the Fords didn’t object, I’d

Ford Residence

Gregory wasn’t home.

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