Resent, Reject, Regret by Aqua Summers

Chapter 485 Hang Tight

“Damn straight, but… It’s different for him. He directs it all to himself, thinking that if he could just be better somehow, the girl of his love wouldn’t have ended up with that fat cat. The more he dwelled on that thought, the more he hung his head and just… couldn’t straighten his spine and look ahead no more.”

Pity colored Deirdre’s eyes.

“Money is the Devil, ain’t it? You can do whatever you like when you’re rich, but live by your shoestrings if you don’t have ’em.”

Mrs. Cox continued. “That’s why I’m happy to see Hoyt this happy when he helps you. Maybe you won’t date each other, but it doesn’t matter. What matters is that you brought him out of the shadows. That’s the point of these relationships, isn’t it? Forgetting the pain of the last one is a blessing. Finding a new person to try again is another.”

The rain stopped.

Mrs. Cox went back to sleep while Deirdre sat on the edge of her bed, her eyes blank.

‘Try again with a new person, she said.”

That was not what Deirdre had thought back then-until she met Kyran. He was gentle, kind, and attentive. He had broken every wall she had built around her heart.

sentiment she had against Brendan

only to have God reveal that

circle. She had fallen for the

groggily. A while later, she heard sounds, people

her eyes, put on a coat, and walked toward the living room. There were two people there. One of them was Mrs. Cox,

see her. Hanging his

absentmindedly and

the widest grin she could muster. “Looks like all

was confused.

now can fight against the nipping sea breeze. That’s why I asked Hoyt to bring you to the market today for

coat tightly around her. “I’m good, Mrs. Cox. It can’t be a short trip to the market,

sprung at her comment as though he had been meaning to talk for a while and yet had not had the chance. “It’s g-getting colder

won’t help you tomorrow,” said Mrs. Cox. “It’s going to be below zero, missy! Freezing! If you catch a cold or get frostbite, there is no doctor around this part to

and decided that they

Hoyt’s ears

up in a simple bun. She