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?”

just to hesitantly express her suspicion. She even mentally steeled herself to watch Brendan break down in

grip around her waist. "Detective

you already. I don't feel anything for her. I wouldn't even feel bad if 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

blurry veil her damaged sight had perpetually bestowed on her, like a ray of

said could be handwaved as a joke. The love and sentiment that pulsated under his every

"B-Brendan..."

did not know what to say

it was featherlight, and without his usual aggression, as though he was

free to choose. The last 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

waist and closed his eyes, his breath steady. A while later, it became rhythmic. He had