Chapter 243

It wasn’t so much sadness as it was envy. If Mom were still alive, she’d also look out for me.

I murmured in my heart, ‘Mom… Oh, how I miss you.”

“What are you blubbering about? Out of nowhere, from behind a massive pillar in the parking lot, Gregory emerged, frowning at me.

“Weren’t you all gung–ho about getting that divorce? Can’t bear to leave after just a few words exchanged?”

I hastily wiped away fny tears, sniffed, and mumbled, “It’s not that. The wind’s strong out here. Got something in my eye.”

“Ah.” He saw right through my lie, his sarcasm biting. “For something in your eye, you’re quite the crybaby.”

What a terrible joke.

Yet, my foul mood lifted a bit. “Didn’t you say you’d wait in the car? What are you doing out here?”

“Got stuffy.” He dropped those words and wandered ahead.

in, I suddenly realized how cold I’d been from head to toe.

to life, merging

my thoughts. “What was the

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like he was dragging

slow–moving city traffic, with frequent red lights,

at me. “What

make me see the truth,

competing with your dear god sister, Dorothy, over a man,”

Didn’t you say I ruined your plan the other day?” He rested one hand lazily on the window sill, the other on the steering wheel.

determination to have Bryant as a

at him. “So, should I

smirked. “Sure. Buy me

of

don’t seem the type to be so

jaw tensed, and he smiled, “You have a unique way of complimenting

the Myers family like this

said casually, “What’s there to worry about? At most, my dad would yell at me a bit. That wouldn’t harm a bit. If he

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