Resent, Reject, Regret by Aqua Summers

Chapter 242 Misgiving Dispelled

Deirdre’s lips were trembling, and she stretched out her hand with great effort. ” Mother, can I… touch your hands?”

She knew Ophelia’s hands. They were a pair of old hands covered in calluses that felt very different even at a very young age, especially in some spots.

She had not felt out Ophelia’s hands seriously before this but she had grown suspicious after Charlene’s remarks.

Maeve’s heart was racing. “What’s going on? What’s going on with you… Deirdre?”

“I’m fine…” Deirdre took a deep breath and cracked a fake smile with great difficulty.” I used to hold your hand frequently in the past and I missed doing that all of a sudden. I yearned for the feeling of you holding my hand when you walked me home after school…”

“1 see.” Maeve smiled, but her heart was still on guard. She had figured out that Deirdre must have noticed something. At the same time that a feeling of uneasiness grew in her, she had no choice but to stretch out her hand.

“Alright, I shall hold my little Deirdre’s hand then.”

Her voice sounded as warm and affectionate as before.

smooth, fine, and delicate, just like the hands of a person who

that was the case, the outcome would be

a moment when she felt the coarseness of Maeve’s hand. Her hand was covered in calluses and was not a young woman’s hand at

It was because this

“What happened?”

Ophelia’s hands when she had watched

hands had been aged, skinny, emaciated, covered

over 50 years old in the video clips, her hands had already been aged and withered akin to a

weeks just to simulate Ophelia’s hands yet she was well aware that her hands were still far from

felt her way to Ophelia’s frequently–used finger with her fingers and found a hard, coarse

‘It is Ophelia!

‘It is her!‘

way harder than those on other parts of her

was lifted off her chest. She had been more afraid of this discovery than anybody else

smiled just like her usual self and placed her hands on Maeve’s outfit subconsciously. “How do you like it?