Lost Me Gained Regret

Undoubtedly, the message was from Kane.

Gregory snatched the phone from my hands and dialed back immediately.

-No answer.

I took my phone back and stepped out to the balcony to call Pearl.

Hearing my voice, Pearl seemed rather upset, even surprised, "Jane, you're still alive..."

Her voice trailed off, "What do you want calling me?"

Pretending ignorance.

I didn't have the patience for beating around the bush, so I got straight to the point: "Pearl, I know you want to fight for Dorothy's share of the Myers family estate. Fine, I agree. Everything that Ramona left me in her will, I'm willing to give to Dorothy. Is that satisfactory?"

"Hmm?"

Upon hearing this, Pearl sounded pleased, leisurely saying, "Are you negotiating with me, or... begging me?"

I glanced through the sliding glass door at my grandmother, sleeping peacefully, and suppressed my anger, "Take it as you will. Right now, I just need the antidote. If something really happens to Ramona, it won't be good for you either, right?"

They were always afraid that if Ramona regained her sanity, she would bring me back into the Myers fold. But actually harming Ramona and risking her life was a step they dared not take.

Myers estate would end up in my hands as

use the antidote to blackmail me, but if Ramona were to suffer because we couldn't

that I

it's about

"Have you thought this through? The Myers estate might not be what it was a few years ago, but to the vast majority, it's still an unreachable status. Are you really okay with giving up your

"Whether I'm okay with it doesn't matter, does it? Cut the crap. If you're worried I'll change my mind, I can sign a contract, in black and white. The condition is the antidote

you sure?" She

now. Bring the antidote and the contract to the hospital

readily agreed, confidently saying, "Of course, no

returning to the hospital room, Gregory looked at me, already

"She agreed?" he asked.

did." I

would agree. After all their elaborate schemes, this was

I had been on the phone,

pulled a wet wipe from her bag to clean my arm, which had somehow gotten dirty in the abandoned factory, and

"Let me

okay?"

"No need."

be the last

detach myself from this situation,