Goodbye, Mr. Regret

Thankfully, he hadn't held her too tightly.

Jessica quickly turned away, dodging his attempt to kiss her again.

Her fingers were still trembling.

Before she could react, Timothy pressed her down onto the bed, his knees bent and elbows braced on either side of her, completely enclosing Jessica beneath

him.

The heat in his gaze made his intentions unmistakably clear.

Jessica felt utterly helpless.

It wasn't that she didn't want to resist.

She had tried to fight him off many times, but it was always pointless.

simply wasn't

lock of hair from her forehead, his voice low and soft. "Shaking like this, yet still

with shame. Men always seemed so much more unashamed, so much more at ease with these things than

but his warm palm cupped her cheek, his eyes narrowing with a

wanted nothing more than to escape him. She quickly raised her hand,

didn't press her. He rolled onto his side without argument, and Jessica shot out of bed, hurrying to the wardrobe for her

ever, determined to linger here, but she needed to find a way to get rid of

all, they were getting divorced. She wasn't about to let him seduce her again or drag her into anything

Timothy had used to get Ines to come to him for help. Meanwhile, Jessica's cancer diagnosis forced her to

bathroom, she draped her pajamas over her arm and faced Timothy, signing her

a mentor, I'm guessing she's hit some kind of wall in her design

and Jessica knew she'd keep working in the animation industry. A mentor

a mentor's student herself, Jessica was willing to give back to

shared her knowledge just as generously, as long

that Jessica felt so much resistance, but if it meant