Goodbye, Mr. Regret

Chapter 153

If she still couldn't find a solution, she'd think of another way to speak with

Timothy.

[At the hospital. Everything okay?]

[Yeah.]

[Send me the address-I'll come find you.]

Jessica sent him the location of a nearby café.

When she got inside, she ordered a glass of warm water. She took a few more painkillers—just in case. The last thing she needed was for Herbert, being a doctor, to notice something was off.

Half an hour later, Herbert rushed in, still looking a bit disheveled. There was a dark bruise at the corner of his mouth.

Jessica's brows knitted together. Mrs. Reynolds had told her his father hit him.

Herbert slid into the chair, adjusted his glasses, and managed a smile. "Hey, Little Mute. Want anything to drink?"

much had happened-enough to worry

after being hit,

signed heavily,

"You mean my lip? It's just

talk

blunt. *Has Timothy been giving you trouble?* she

paused, a shadow crossing his

fists for a moment. "Did my mom come to

it matter how I found out? I haven't contacted that lawyer, and I won't ask you to introduce me to anyone else. Talk to

how are you going to get a

the moment he'd seen Jessica back in the country, he'd noticed the sorrow in her eyes. With

out your own problems, and

nothing, really. Don't worry about it. The Wheeler Group can handle a little turbulence. Don't

If this were just a little "turbulence," Mrs. Reynolds never would have come to

know exactly what

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