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 die willingly for her if it meant 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

that Ophelia was more important to her than

be shattering for her to

a coward or a

of an excuse to keep this up

the lingering fear of being on the brink of death. He lay down right away and cuddled Deirdre

he would wake 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 breathing was shallow, and she

a daze for a moment upon

up together in the same bed during the past

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

face turned

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

It’s fine that you had a