Resent, Reject, Regret by Aqua Summers

Chapter 875 You Just Have to Trust Me

Deirdre would never know how much it pained Brendan to see her retreating into the corner like a puppy being bullied. It felt like his heart was being torn into two by someone's bare hand.

The rage-and his helpless ignorance-at the kind of abuse suffered by the woman he loved was coursing through his veins and animating every single fiber in his body. How he wished he could be the one to suffer in her place!

The pain from his forceful kiss lingered on Deirdre's lips. Quivering, she said shakily, "B-Brendan, I...”

He threw his arms around her and hugged her tightly. "Why can’t you just- stand up for yourself more, Deirdre? Why?" he murmured, pained.

Deirdre did not know how to react at all. She had never heard Brendan use such a voice before-never heard him sound so desperate, so vulnerable, so pleading.

"I’m... I'm fine..." It took her a long time to force her thoughts back down to comfort him. "Nothing happened. I'm okay. It wasn't so bad, you see? If it were, I would have told the warden."

Brendan unbuttoned her collar and stared at the bruises coldly. "This is your definition of 'okay'?"

her shirt again. "I mean,

at her for a while before fastening her seatbelt and driving her to

only found out, during the subsequent medication examination, that all of her bruises had been targeted at areas where her uniform would cover. They were all over her and were made by her

black-hearted would you have to be to even do such a thing to a pregnant woman?

those inmates had not done what they did unprompted-and even

call, the nurse had finished her task, too. Deirdre put on her clothes,

and did the last button on her

so please, take a good, well-deserved rest. I'll be

send me back there." "Why?" "Because I have pretty much recovered by this point. Besides, I'm... I'm a suspect. If other people learn that I've been sent to the hospital in the middle of my detainment, they will make a hill out of this mound. I don't want to give you

care

"I’m not so powerless that my love can’t even get a good night's sleep. The police have incentives not to let

to refute him further, but Brendan, rubbing