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.

got into the car and the heater kicked in, I suddenly realized how cold I’d been from head to toe.

life, merging

“What was the real reason you asked me

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he needed a date. Then, it seemed like he was dragging me in as some actress. I

lights, even a sports car could only stop and

me. “What do you

make me see the

your dear god sister, Dorothy, over

your plan the other day?” He rested one hand lazily on the window sill, the other on the steering wheel. Tm giving it back to

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

“So,

“Sure. Buy me dinner,

of thanks. Your

don’t

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

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

at me a bit. That wouldn’t harm a bit. If he hits me, my

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