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.

I suddenly realized how cold I’d been from head to toe. It chilled me to

silver Pagani roared to life, merging swiftly onto

my thoughts. “What was the real reason you

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first, I thought maybe he needed a date. Then, it seemed like he was dragging

city traffic, with frequent red lights, even a

glanced at me. “What do you

me see the truth,

dear god sister, Dorothy,

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

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

at him. “So,

me dinner, or give

a nod of

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

smiled, “You have a

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

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

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