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 begun to

only to have God reveal that it was

fool’s full circle. She had fallen for the same man twice,

while later, she heard sounds,

toward the living room. There were two people there. One of them was Mrs. Cox, and the other

young man seemed rather flustered to see her. Hanging his

him absentmindedly and nodded. “Mr. Leigh!

she could muster. “Looks like all

confused. “Sorry,

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

can’t be a short trip

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

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

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

Hoyt’s ears turned red. “N-Nothing at

in a simple bun. She stepped outside the house