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.

against Brendan had

to have God reveal that it was a prank

fool’s full circle. She had

while later, she

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

seemed rather flustered to see her. Hanging

him absentmindedly and nodded. “Mr.

all of our main characters are

confused.

sweetie! Ours is a seaside town, and none of your cotton shirts right now can fight against the nipping sea breeze.

can’t be

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

If you catch a cold or get frostbite, there is no doctor around this part to help you! You’ll only way is the market,

in her head and decided that they were right. Embarrassed, she said, Well, sorry

tips of Hoyt’s ears turned red. “N-Nothing at

did a quick wash-up and got her hair up in a simple bun.