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?”

her a lot 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!” Brendan tightened his grip around her waist. "Detective Dee Dee has closed a

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 love with you... I finally realized they are not the same, i "I've only ever loved a woman in my life.” He cupped her face in his

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

react. Nothing he said could be handwaved as a joke.

"B-Brendan..."

to say even after staying silent for

it was featherlight, and without his usual aggression, as though he was handling the most priceless treasure the world could ever offer

thing I want is to know that any of your choices were made under pressure." He breathed. "After Ophelia's safe and sound and our child is born... HI let you go if

eyes, his breath steady. A while later, it became rhythmic. He had fallen

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