Lost Me Gained Regret

Chapter 432

My eyes grew slightly moist, a peculiar sensation scratching at the bottom of my heart.

For a fleeting moment, I contemplated coming clean. What if this revelation impacted his health? I was ready to face it alongside him. Better that than having him spend nights agonizing, deeming me a heartbreaker.

Shaking my head, I began, “It’s not like that, Gregory. These past two years, I’ve been…”

“Never mind.”

Gregory’s smile was thin, laced with unmistakable mockery, though his eyes betrayed a redness. “Jane, I guess I should’ve never harbored any

expectations.”

His words stabbed deep.

I struggled to keep my eyes wide, pinching the inner corners to hold back tears, feigning acceptance. “If that’s what you believe, you might not be wrong.”

After all, my efforts over the past two years to track him down had led nowhere. Like a traceless bird in flight, equivalent to having never tried. I didn’t need to confess my actions to him. In his eyes, I was just that callous. He had barely been mourned before I was supposedly cozying up with someone else.

So, if that’s how it was to be, further words were futile.

“Really?”

sound filled with bitterness, and in the next moment, stretched out an arm, pulling me down to him. Then, his hand found the back of my head, and he

Not a kiss, but a bite.

my mouth. The pain was sharp, and I gasped, cautious of his fragile legs, hardly daring to push him away,

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a warning. “This time, it doesn’t matter if you’re Jane or Lilliana, getting close to anyone

mistake!”

that, he wheeled

lips, my fingers came away bloodied, a stark reminder. “Ike’s still showering.”

been busy lately. Take care

look back as

where darkness engulfed everything but the faint starlight beyond the windows. In the shadows, pondering her attitude, his irritation surged from within. He had spent over two decades searching for her, only for her to not seek him out immediately upon leaving Bryant,

he had struggled through treatment for her sake now seemed laughable, utterly worthless. Yet, he had survived. The Ford family, father and son,

grip on the wheelchair tightened, veins bulging before uncontrollably trembling. He had hoped, with Jane moving back, that his sleep, just a wall away from her bedroom, would improve, perhaps even without

seems he was

lithium carbonate, swallowing a few pills. The bitterness mingled with the taste of blood, an odd

buzzed. Irritably, he glanced at the caller ID- Edith. At this hour, she should be boarding her flight. Yet, she had time to

His voice carried an