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.”

differently—if he had divorced her with grace and dignity, without the needless

searing pang, regret crashing over him in relentless

fetch some alcohol.

awful. If the man didn’t pull himself together soon, his body would give out from

a bottle of alcohol and some

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Kristian refused everything.

Ms. Briggs,” Gerard offered, spinning a lie in a last-ditch

“What is it?”

“Eat first.”

the mere mention of Freya stirred something in him. That name alone could drag him back

take bite after bite, shoveling food into his mouth without tasting

fixed on Gerard, a flicker of expectation

was he supposed

could grow too