Resent, Reject, Regret by Aqua Summers

Chapter 137 What Now?

Deirdre pushed herself to get out of bed.

The phone in the living room was still shrieking incessantly-almost like an audio representation of suffering without end. She got out of bed with great difficulty and walked through the door. She then picked up the phone-

And Brendan’s annoyed snarl greeted her. “Took you long enough!”

Deirdre’s fingers tightened around the receiver. As if he had not played a part in this! It had been cold the day he had stripped her naked in his study and forcibly had sex with her. She had felt both chills and at heat rush after that and had unsurprisingly come down with a fever. Even now, she was working her way through a brain fog.

Not that he would care, anyway. All he cared about was spilling his seed and making himself feel good. To him, she had always been a subhuman at best.

“I have a headache. I just woke up,” she croaked.

Brendan snickered. “Would it kill you to cut back on your malingering? It’s almost late evening, for Christ’s sake.”

the subject. Suppressing her headache, she asked,

left her necklace at home instead of bringing it to the party. She needs that necklace because Mom gave it

aback. Had he just asked a blind woman to deliver Charlene’s

she knew it. “Brendan, I’m blind. Bringing her necklace to the party, unassisted, is a tall

hail a cab and come to the old mansion-it

holding on to the edge of the table. “Aren’t you scared I might seize the chance to

contempt. “Sure. Run as far as you like. Don’t worry about

her throat. Even with Sterling gone, Brendan still had leverage against her. She took. a deep breath and asked, “Where

room. On her vanity table. It’s in a box,

vanity table, got the box, and left to hail a ride. The journey lasted about 20 minutes. Someone approached her as soon as she got out of the car. “Is this

“Here it is-what Charlene wanted. Give it to her. And

smile. “Hold on a moment, Miss McKinnon. Miss McKinney. told me

inconvenience.”