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.

suddenly realized

roared to life, merging swiftly

thoughts. “What was the real reason you asked me here

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a date. Then, it seemed like

traffic, with frequent red lights, even a sports

glanced at me. “What do you

make me see

dear god sister,

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. Tm giving it back

me to see the Myers family’s determination to have Bryant as a son–in–law. That way,

glanced at him. “So, should I thank

smirked. “Sure. Buy me dinner,

of

sighed. “You, of all people, don’t seem the type to

smiled, “You have a unique

you worried about facing the Myers family like this today?”

would yell at me a bit. That wouldn’t harm a bit. If he hits me, my granddad will chase

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