Lost Me Gained Regret

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.

me think that it was better

you try to fix a broken mirror, it’s still broken. The cracks are always there as a reminder of the real pain

go can piece a broken

guy. He might seem indifferent at times, but once he cares about someone

not ready to think about

abandoned once

And yet…

hit the nail on the head, “Do you feel like you’re not worthy of him because you’re

*Yes.”

a woman who’s divorced is considered less

Mark was interested in me, tried everything to stop it.

alone a prestigious family like the Fords.

How are you more old–fashioned than this

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

they

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

Gregory…

be a stand in,

better not to think about it.

the Fords didn’t object, I’d only

the Ford Residence to deliver the clothes to Adah.

Gregory wasn’t home.