Requiem of a Broken Heart

Chapter 710:

That had caught her completely off guard. Maybe, she thought, the rumors about him weren’t entirely true.

Right now, however, frustration gripped her as she quickly spoke to Debby. “I’m sorry. It was my mistake.”

“You don’t have to apologize.”

A firm, familiar voice suddenly broke the tension. Brian pushed himself up and sat straight. His gaze landed on Reba first.

“You did nothing wrong. There’s no need to be afraid.”

Then, turning to Debby, he added, “I told her to help me back to the office. She’s timid—don’t intimidate her.”

Debby looked at him in shock. “Brian, are you seriously defending her?”

against his temples before shifting his gaze

stared at her familiar face, old memories

was a time when another woman had stood by his

things difficult for her, she never fought back. Instead, she simply lowered her head and swallowed the humiliation,

he had never once defended

𝖈𝖍𝖊𝖈𝖐𝖊𝖉 𝖘𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖞 𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖊: 𝖌ⲁ𝗅𝗇𝗈ν𝖊𝗅𝘀⫺𝖼𝗈𝗆

needed him the most, when she had been at her most vulnerable, he had remained cold and distant,

that same expression, that same

home. I can take care

“Are you really turning against your own mother because

sighed and

wasn’t the reason for this divide. It was just that in Reba, he saw echoes of Rachel—the woman he had failed. Maybe by