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?”

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

assumed that she was the happiest girl in the world at the time. She had lived a perfectly satisfactory life after marrying him, yet she would still have died just so Ophelia could live one

Ophelia was more important

it would be shattering for her to find out

as a coward or a vile

could not think of an excuse to keep this up for

the brink of

up the next afternoon. Brendan looked at the woman 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

a daze for

during the past two years

opened her eyes in confusion. After sensing the man next to her, she said in an anxious tone without thinking

face turned cold

He said in a

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 you in time, you would have been in a morgue by now and