Resent, Reject, Regret by Aqua Summers

Chapter 107 Forced Choice

Brendan was forcing her to make a choice. She could save whatever remained of her dignity, but Sterling would have to lose his on her behalf. She would have to doom him to save herself.

Brendan’s sadism knew no bounds. How could he be so heartless?

Deirdre sobbed. She felt faint spells, yet her heart was ironically much calmer than before. “It’s alright,” she said, her eyes as empty as her tone. “I’ll do it.”

The room cheered. It was what everyone wanted. Amid the revelry, though, was Brendan’s increasingly stormy expression. His eyes were cold.

“Do you understand what you’ve just said? You’re going to strip yourself clean and dance in front of a crowd of strangers. If you call Sterling, the most I’ll make him do is

make him drink.”

The most he would do?

Deirdre smiled between her tears. To hell would she even believe that!

She would never believe him ever again.

she? When he told her he would never play favorites and

had said it like he

wonder… that maybe Brendan was not the one who had orchestrated her torment while

incarcerated.

of them had been played by Charlene. He was

she was wiser. That delusion of

said he would not play favorites, yet all it took to reverse his stance and see Deirdre as the sinner was Charlene overdosing on sleeping pills and the words of a random janitor. That was apparently enough “evidence” for him to bring her

pity for you, Brendan. You’re so blind and

have to say a word

the world. What else did she have? Why did

apoplectic. Disbelief practically coursed through his veins

chose this, Deirdre! You lost the

find her way up there if we leave

excited. Sofia was particularly ecstatic. She was eager to make as much impression on Brendan as she could, so she led Deirdre up the

began recording just so they could

felt cold. Her expression was that of numbness. The cheers and shrieks of her audience faded into white noise. Her trembling hand