Lost Me Gained Regret

Chapter 344

I hadn’t even gotten a chance to speak when Ramona flew into a rage.

She glared at Susan, her face a thunderstorm of fury, “And who exactly gave you the right to kick people out of my house?

“Ramona, it’s okay!”

I remembered Gregory mentioning how her health couldn’t handle too much excitement, so I quickly tried to soothe her. I was about to leave anyway. Gregory should be bringing Ms. Myers over to meet you soon!

I felt like an outsider in what was supposed to be a heartwarming family reunion:

Ramona wanted to keep me there longer, but seeing my determination, she didn’t push further

My bags were already packed from the morning. I grabbed my suitcase and came back down, Susan escorted me out of the house. Once we were out of Ramona’s earshot, she started speaking with a tone laced with disdain

“Don’t bother coming back here for no reason. We aren’t the kind to take in strays!”

“Mrs. Myers,” I kept walking, not even turning to look at her, my response firm but respectful, “I know you can’t stand me, thinking I’m some kind of threat to your precious daughter, being Bryant’s ex–wife. But let me make this clear, I just happened to get along with Ramona by chance. Joining your family tree is the last of my concerns.”

“Who knows what you’re really after?”

She clearly didn’t buy it, her eyes darting down to the bracelet on my wrist, “That bracelet, Ramona gave it to you, didn’t she?”

“Yeah.”

“Hmph!

with contempt, “Only a beggar

temper any longer, my tone icy, “And what about you? Have

“Jane Webster!!*

seething, her face darkening. “Don’t think you can hide behind Ramona and that I can’t get to you!”

plan on

dripping with sarcasm, “Make me kneel in the snow again? Your darling daughter has quite a bit of dirt not publicized,

at me, as she ground her teeth in anger, “So it was you behind last

“You guess?”

longer kept pace with her, pushing my

what Gregory said after he rescued me from

it was me or not, she wouldn’t show any

might actually make them think

I was about to call a

he arrange for a driver to

of Vista Town, my thoughts were a

she’d landed in her

for a romantic encounter

of this that I had agreed to help Gregory deal with his parents over

“Attention drivers on the South River Highway a major pile up between Vista Town and RiverCity has caused severe congestion. The road

drivers to…”

pressed the brake, hesitating,

me to a nearby hotel, please.