Resent, Reject, Regret by Aqua Summers

Chapter 927 I’ve Only Ever Loved You

"What do you think Charlene is thinking, Deirdre?"

Deirdre's heart sank. There was no way around it-Charlene had been screwing another man.

She raised her head and met his gaze with pity.

"Oh-kay. Why are you looking at me like that?"

Deirdre churned her thoughts a while longer before deciding to tell it as it was. "This is going to come off as painful to you, but I think you deserve to know at least something. I think... Charlene has another man." "What gave you that idea?” Brendan replied. The emotion in his tone was unreadable.

"I called you this afternoon, right? A few minutes before that, I smelled... well, a man's sweat. And then Mrs. Engel told me the way Charlene walked was off. When you square all of those together, the conclusion, well, wrote itself... you know?”

of courage just to hesitantly express her suspicion. She even mentally steeled herself to watch Brendan break down in shock. And yet, to her surprise, the man

see, I see!” Brendan tightened his grip around her waist. "Detective Dee Dee has closed

she got pregnant with some other guy's child!" "But you're supposed to be at least a little wounded, right?" Deirdre rebutted frantically. "You used to like her so deeply!" "Huh? Did I?" Brendan murmured to himself as he rubbed his chin against the young woman's hair. Solemness replaced the playfulness in his eyes. "I used to think like you too, confusing a debt and responsibility I owed her as love. It's only after I fell in

pierced through the blurry veil her damaged sight had perpetually bestowed on her, like

eyes betrayed her panic. She suddenly did not know how to react. Nothing he said could be handwaved as a joke. The love and sentiment that pulsated under his every word-it was flooding toward her

"B-Brendan..."

know what to say even after staying silent for a

planted a kiss on her lips, but it was featherlight, and without

your choices were made under pressure." He breathed. "After Ophelia's safe and sound and our child is born... HI let you go if you're still unwilling

waist and closed his eyes, his breath steady.