Resent, Reject, Regret by Aqua Summers

Chapter 186 Wish I Could Choke You to Death

It was all related to Ophelia.

Brendan had known how important Ophelia was to Deirdre for a long time.

Ophelia had been sick because of Deirdre, so she had carried the heavy burden of raising Deirdre by herself. She had refused to marry again and taken three laborious jobs to make a living.

Deirdre had once whispered to him, “Brendan, you’re the second most important person in my life.”

He had been agitated at the time and he had humored her by asking with a cold face, “Who’s the most important person then?”

“My mother!” Her tiny face had blushed scarlet because she had misunderstood his reaction for jealousy. She had explained herself in a panic, “Don’t misunderstand.”

“What’s there for me to misunderstand?”

chuckled before falling silent. “She has experienced way too many hardships for me, so I would

the happiest girl in the world at the time. She had lived a perfectly satisfactory life after marrying him,

that Ophelia was more important to her than

her

on his chest. One could describe him as a coward or a vile man,

of an excuse to

of being on the brink of death. He lay down

in her arms instinctively and found her leaning on his chest, her hair messy. Her face was no longer ghastly pale, but her cheeks were stained with a sickly blush. Her breathing was shallow, and she was clutching his clothes. restlessly in

a daze for a

could count the number of occasions they had woken up together in the same bed during the past two years on his fingers, yet this feeling had actually aroused a sense of familiarity and sentimentality in

confusion. After sensing the man next to her, she said in an anxious tone without thinking twice, “Who’s

turned

a cold, mocking tone, “Who else would want to lie on the

was stunned for a moment. Brendan put on his jacket and looked at Deirdre’s face with a cold gaze. He said through clenched teeth, “Deirdre, do you think you’re capable now? It’s fine that you had a death wish, but you actually jumped off the building. Had Sam not grabbed