Resent, Reject, Regret by Aqua Summers

Chapter 311

Chapter 311 Are You Willing to Go to Eastgene?

Deirdre was moved into silence. Her tongue failed her, and it took her minutes to recover her voice finally. “Tobey, I… I’m not worth it.”

She did not deserve his concern. She was a hideous, blind, formerly-incarcerated ticking time bomb whose very presence could spell trouble at any time. She did not deserve to be with a man whose life was on the ascent.

Tobey’s tone darkened. “Don’t you dare look down on yourself, Deirdre. Or was that a dig at my romantic preferences?”

Deirdre fell silent.

“You want me to tell you the ugly truth? Okay,” he added. “Truth is, I’m taking advantage of the current you. You’re at your most vulnerable, a lonely soul crying out for companionship and a place to belong. I’m merely seizing this moment. You know why? Because I know that even now, even when it seems like I’m at the height of my life, I don’t measure up to even a fragment of the blinding splendor you used to emanate.”

Deirdre had always been their school’s brightest star. Her destitute family background had done nothing to stop her academic excellence. She could have easily gotten a place among the nation’s most elite schools if she had wanted to.

there were the suitors. She was the belle to so many of his peers that Tobey

and her eyes turned misty. “No, Tobey, you’re wrong! I’m not half as good as

Deirdre. Nobody is half as good as you,” Tobey intercepted

silence later, he asked,

in this place alone in the near future. I have a place and a job in this city now. All I need is the

he asking her to come to a

now that he laid it out in the open, Deirdre could not help but recognize its merits. This could be a new beginning. A new, unfamiliar place- so pristine and unmarred from Brendan’s presence. Maybe this was where she could begin

not trying to coerce you into doing anything you don’t want, Dee. All I’m trying to do is to show you

I need to

thing I’m kinda beat for the day, too! Gotta hit

“Yes. Good night.”

here because the familiarity of Ophelia’s origin called to her. Telling her to jettison all of this

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