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.”

handled things differently—if he had divorced her with grace and dignity, without the needless hurt—perhaps their story wouldn’t have ended in such jagged, unfinished

chest tightened with a searing pang, regret crashing over him in

bear to watch anymore. After a brief, 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 would

returned with a bottle of alcohol and

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Kristian refused everything.

Briggs,” Gerard offered, spinning a lie in a last-ditch effort to get Kristian to eat.

“What is it?”

“Eat first.”

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

forced himself to take bite after bite, shoveling food into his

his eyes fixed on Gerard, a flicker

was he supposed to say? He had made

could grow too long or