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?”

experienced way too many hardships for me, so I would die willingly for her if it meant that she’d get to live to see

at the time. She had lived a perfectly satisfactory life after marrying him, yet she would still have died just

was more important to

for her to find out

suffocated by the weight on his chest. One could describe him as a coward

he could not think of an excuse to

was exhausted from the long trip, in addition to the lingering fear of being on the brink of death. He lay down right

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 her

a daze for a moment upon witnessing the

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

in confusion. After sensing the man next to her,

face turned cold

flung the blanket on Deirdre’s body, and reached for his clothes. He said in a cold, mocking tone, “Who else

fine that you had a death wish, but you actually jumped off the building. Had Sam not grabbed you in time, you would have been in a morgue by now