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.

into the car and the heater kicked in, I suddenly realized how cold I’d been

life, merging swiftly onto the main

my thoughts. “What was the real reason you asked

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thought maybe he needed a date. Then, it seemed like he was dragging me in

red lights, even a sports car could

at me.

me see the truth,

your dear god sister, Dorothy, over

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

have Bryant as a son–in–law. That way, my divorce from Bryant

him. “So, should

me dinner,

of thanks.

don’t seem the

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

you worried about facing the Myers family like this

casually, “What’s there to worry about? At most, my dad would yell at me a bit. That

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