Goodbye, Mr. Regret

Jessica ordered two dishes without much thought.

Timothy picked up the menu and proceeded to order a whole slew of dishes.

Jessica frowned.

She didn't believe in wasting food.

At home, she might prepare a variety of meals, but she always kept the portions

small.

She tried to make sure there were never too many leftovers.

Her grandmother used to say that wasting food was like throwing away good fortune.

The more blessings you had, the more abundance you'd enjoy.

Someone like Timothy-able to amass so much wealth-must truly be a man favored by fortune.

As his wife, Jessica never took part in his business affairs, but at home, she did everything she could to keep things in order.

She treated every member of the household staff with kindness.

She respected his elders.

She cared for his family as if they were her own.

When it came to spending, she was never extravagant or wasteful.

If it had been before, she would have spoken up-there were only three of them eating, after all, they didn't need to order so much.

now, she didn't want to bother

Sheila a mug of hot

her eyes crinkling. "Timothy, you ordered fresh orange juice just for Jessica. You really do know her tastes. That's

Jessica lowered her gaze.

Sheila was getting at:

hot milk, and he'd even specified the

That took effort.

spoke, Sheila

phone to call you, I added you as

you still haven't accepted. Have you

this, Timothy reached for Jessica's

Jessica had unblocked his number to call for

hadn't done the same on

intended to unblock his own profile from

her phone, trying to take

had no intention of adding Sheila as a

divorce Timothy-adding Sheila was

about to let Timothy make that

Timothy didn't

phone,

wrong? Is there something on your phone you don't want me

her lips together and let

He could add Sheila

delete

phone didn't have a

messaging app and removed his