Goodbye, Mr. Regret

Chapter 1

As soon as she closed the car door, the world's noise vanished.

Jessica Greene stared at the liver cancer diagnosis in her lap, her hazel eyes rimmed red. The paper trembled in her hands, crumpling beneath her grip.

The doctor had told her she'd missed the window for surgery-six months left, at best.

Today was the school's annual parent-child event. Out of the blue, Timothy

Lawson had told her she should come.

Seven years had passed since the day Timothy, once the untouchable darling of high society, became her husband.

In all those years, he'd never once brought her to a public event.

Once upon a time, that invitation would have sent her over the moon.

Even the housekeeper had beamed when she heard the news. "Mrs. Lawson, looks like Mr. Lawson finally wants to make things official!"

No one knew that ever since Jessica discovered his secret, she'd been quietly getting her affairs in order, preparing to leave him.

She hadn't planned to go to the school event at all.

But she couldn't bear the thought of disappointing her son.

She could shut Timothy out of her heart, but she couldn't do the same to Henry- the little boy she'd carried for nine long months.

Arriving at the school, Jessica took a notepad from her purse and wrote a neat line before handing it to the security guard.

Hello, I'm Henry Lawson's mom from Class 1-3. I'm here for the parent-child event -could you please let me in?

crinkled blouse, hair loosely swept up, and-for the first time in ages-the pearl earrings Timothy had

a bit of effort, she looked

how kids were. They always wanted their mom to look her best for

an eyebrow. "Can't

simply smiled and

trauma, she'd lost her voice. By now, she was

guard pulled out the sign-in sheet, scanning it

over.

thought. Too

signed in. You can't just pretend to be someone's

and quickly wrote, Henry is my son. There's no reason for me

sheet toward her and jabbed a

the names in the parent signature

sneers and sideways glances that came with her

chest felt impossibly

guard's suspicion

the name scrawled

trying

but once, while tidying Timothy's study, she'd found a slip of paper

over.

had told her

Sheila's last name was

had insisted

Jessica's

apart from caring for Henry, she'd poured her remaining

Timothy's name, their politeness

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