Resent, Reject, Regret by Aqua Summers

Chapter 525 The Child Was Forced to Die

After a long beat, Kyran finally found his voice. “And Steven?”

“Fled.” Declan took another sharp inhale of smoke. “He is a smart man who knows you all too well. He foresaw things going south way ahead and withdrew his savings before disappearing. It’s impossible to find him.”

Kyran’s eyes were nailed to the document. A maelstrom was kicking up in his chest, pressing itself against the inside of his chest and stinging him so much that his face turned white.

It took him a while to recover. Exhaling a few breaths, he said, “He had no motive. He wouldn’t even have gained anything from it.”

Declan flashed him a smile. “That much is obvious. What could he possibly gain from doing all of this to Deirdre? Nothing. As such, someone else must have ordered him to. Now, I don’t have any solid proof yet, but I’m sure who that mastermind could be. Question is… Do you want to hear it?’

Kyran did not even blink. “Charlene.”

gained from this whole thing: you and Charlene McKinney. Deirdre was pregnant with your

to that day–the fire, the woman and her blurry features, and the near–suicidal, altruistic determination to save him from

inferno.

become a demon capable of

his back.

see the mental anguish playing out in Kyran’s mind. Snuffing out his cigarette, he exhaled. ” Brendan, the past is the past. People can be unrecognizably changed even after a year, let alone two

fire. She has changed. I told you back when the woman and I first met that this is a woman who’s motivated by avarice. You were so in love with her that you wouldn’t listen when I told you, and that’s okay. I get

not even going to excuse her.” Kyran thought of the trials Deirdre had gone through and felt a chill

prison and was given a chance to live, Brendan swooped back in like the Devil, chained her to his side, and proceeded to rain hellfire on her, humiliate her, abuse her,

love

sidestepped the question with a much more practical one of

is Charlene.” Kyran shut the document. “It’s high time she reaps what

with me. Deirdre’s

Declan, climbing down his car,