Resent, Reject, Regret by Aqua Summers

Chapter 647 You Misunderstood Him

"Dee..."

Glenna’s mouth hung agape in bewilderment. She had never expected someone this gentle and graceful to be so animated by rage and hate.

Deirdre’s eyes were beet red, but she reined herself in as much as possible. "Sorry, that was sudden and impolite, but I'm not sorry for what I meant. Whether Brendan lives or dies has nothing to do with me! Nothing! I won’t and will never see him!”

Declan scowled. A long while later, he said, "I understand your rage against Brendan, but why... did you say he abandoned you in Gillian's hands?"

"What? He didn't do that?’ Deirdre laughed mockingly. "On that day of the abduction, Cillian called him and told him to come to get me. Do you know what he did? He just took the ride all the way back to Neve! The only

to find anything to help me survive! He

think... he didn't care?" Declan sounded thrown off, as if he was on his back foot. He took a few breaths and

Her eyes trembled. "What!?"

was engraved in Deirdre’s mind. She remembered hearing the guard say

You're telling me he didn't scurry back to Neve? He didn’t hang up on Gillian's call telling him to save

was the truth," Declan admitted. "He

misunderstanding is there

his intention? So, this whole time, he was worried about me for a week but also worried for his own safety? He was biding his time in Neve until everything was okay enough for him to return

knew just how hard it had been for her to survive that one week-the lengths she had had to go through just

had finally walked out of the nightmare after returning to Eastgene, but I didn't expect your trauma to run

"No, you don't have to be sorry. Nobody would have been able to save me back then. I was just chilled to the bone by his cruelty. Anyone would have been worried