Resent, Reject, Regret by Aqua Summers

Chapter 29 You Detest Me Just As Much, Don’t You?

Malice poured out of Brendan’s eyes. He looked less like a man and more like a monster braying for blood. “I let you off the hook, Sterling! How dare you spit on my goodwill! How f*cking dare you take my woman?!”

Pain burned Sterling’s cheek, but it did nothing to hold him back. He snickered. “Your woman? Oh, I see! Being forced to do someone else’s time for a crime she didn’t commit is a perk of being your woman, huh? Being dehumanized as your means of entertainment is also the sort of thing your woman’ should do, right? God, is it just me, or is being ‘your woman’ the cruelest torment anyone could ever suffer?”

Brendan’s eyes turned bloodshot. He then attacked again.

Sterling was no match for him in a fight, but he did not let that stop him from putting up a fight.

Everyone else in the room, including Deirdre, was too aghast to react. She had to stop Sterling from angering Brendan even further. After all, it would be all too easy for

someone as obscenely powerful as Brendan to ruin Sterling’s career as a doctor forever!

“Stop! Please, stop fighting!” she yelled powerlessly. She could not see anything-she could only hear the sounds of fists connecting with flesh. She seized one of them and lurched, then

She felt pain. Right on her face.

gravity calling

swole up, and even the simple act of

turned

,

her into his arms. He shot everyone in the family an icy glare and said angrily, “All of you sicken me. I get that he’s just a bastard son, but god, does this savage even have any manners?!

stormed off. Before

of the house, Deirdre’s recovering ears vaguely heard Richard lambasting Sterling. She curled into herself

shoved her to the passenger’s seat. He loomed over her, fury burning in his chest, and grabbed her by her shoulders in a tight hold. “Are you suicidal, Deirdre? Your face is swollen, for f*ck’s sake! Why do you still care

back inside the Fullers’ residence to beat the living crap out of Sterling was because Deirdre’s

ears were beginning to ring again. She took a deep breath

she cast her eyes down. “He saved me, Brendan. I was

he is! If it wasn’t for

would you have ended up

away

and stomped on the accelerator