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.

ears rang, and she felt gravity calling to her from behind

and even

eyes turned red.

,

said angrily, “All of you sicken me. I get that

he stormed off. Before she

She curled into herself and muttered, “No, Sterling’s injuries

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

had not rushed back inside the Fullers’ residence to beat the living

young woman shivered. His voice was really loud, and her ears were beginning to ring again. She took a deep breath and slumped against

and she cast her eyes down. “He saved me, Brendan. I was left with nothing. I was abandoned. Alone. At that moment of need,

he is! If it wasn’t for him, how

you have ended up in this

away from him

stomped on the accelerator . The car whirred into life,