She Took The House The Car And My Heart

Chapter 955:

“Gerard.”

Gerard stepped closer.

“I regret it,” Kristian murmured painfully, as if the words were too brittle. His eyes stung and burned with tears. He regretted it. But it was too late.

“If I’d listened to you back then… do you think she would’ve stayed?” he asked, lowering his head. Tears spilled through his fingers as if the answer hurt more than the question.

Gerard felt all the sympathy for him but didn’t sugarcoat it. “I think she would have left anyway.”

Kristian’s chest tightened, as if every breath had to fight its way through the pain.

“For someone like Ms. Briggs,” Gerard continued carefully, “once trust breaks… there’s no stitching it back together.” He paused, letting the weight of that truth settle. “The moment you chose Ashley over her, her faith in you was gone.”

divorced her with grace and dignity, without the needless hurt—perhaps their story wouldn’t

searing pang, regret crashing over

uneasy pause, he got up to fetch some alcohol. On the way, he quickly dialed

the man didn’t pull himself together soon, his body

with a bottle of alcohol

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Kristian refused everything.

Gerard offered, spinning a lie in a last-ditch effort to get Kristian to eat. “It’s something that

“What is it?”

“Eat first.”

stirred something in him. That name alone could drag

forced himself to take bite after bite, shoveling food into his mouth without tasting

fixed on Gerard, a flicker of expectation

What the hell was he supposed to say? He had made

grow too