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

have God reveal

full circle. She had fallen for the same

her eyes groggily. A while later, she heard

two people

flustered to see her. Hanging his head, he greeted, “G-G-Good morning, Miss

absentmindedly and nodded.

the widest grin she could muster. “Looks like all of our main characters are here. Let’s get the

confused. “Sorry, the

fight against the

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

as though he had been meaning to talk for a while and yet had not had the chance. “It’s g-getting colder tomorrow, so you need to buy some clothes. You w-won’t be able to leave the house

Mrs. Cox. “It’s going to be below zero, missy! Freezing! If you catch a cold or get frostbite, there is no doctor

mused about it in her head and decided that they were right. Embarrassed, she said,

of Hoyt’s ears turned red. “N-Nothing

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